Coldham, Cambridgeshire

Coldham is a hamlet in Elm civil parish, part of the Fenland district of the Isle of Ely, Cambridgeshire, England. Coldham is the site of a wind farm on a large farm estate of the Cooperative Group near the settlement.^[1]

Coldham
Coldham Location within Cambridgeshire
OS grid reference	TF434029
District	Fenland
Shire county	Cambridgeshire
Region	East
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	Wisbech
Postcode district	PE14
Dialling code	01945
Police	Cambridgeshire
Fire	Cambridgeshire
Ambulance	East of England
List of places UK England Cambridgeshire 52.6058°N 0.1175°E / 52.6058; 0.1175

Church

Coldham, formerly known as "Pear Tree Hill", was formed as a separate ecclesiastical parish in 1874.^[2] The parish formerly had a church dedicated to St. Ethelreda built in 1876. This church was declared redundant in 2000 and has since been converted into a house.^[3] The former war memorial from the church is now located at St Mark's, Friday Bridge.^[4]

Railway station

The settlement formerly had a railway station on the Great Eastern Railway, although there are proposals to reinstate a station as part of the Wisbech and March Bramley Line project.^[5]

Notable people

Mrs E.B. Tanqueray, whose husband was Bertram Tanqueray, vicar of Coldham, wrote The Royal Quaker, a novel about Jane Stuart of Wisbech, published in 1904 by Methuen.^[6][7] A reviewer of the book wrote "It is high praise to say that "Royal Quaker," by Mrs. Bertram Tanqueray (Methuen), ranks with Mr. Quiller Couch's "Hetty Wesley"; inasmuch as both are studies in evangelical faith, founded on history and embroidered by fiction, and in each much of the charm consists in the skill with which the religious atmosphere of a bygone day has been reproduced in the printed page".^[7]