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Welches Dam Cambridgeshire Map

Traditional county: Cambridgeshire · District / Borough: Fenland · Region: Eastern

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Place	Welches Dam
Traditional County	Cambridgeshire
District / Borough	Fenland
Region	Eastern
Country	England, United Kingdom

Latitude	52.451922
Longitude	0.163227
Place Type	Hamlet

About Welches Dam

Welches Dam commands a low, expansive horizon where the sky claims more territory than the earth itself. It lies 4.9 miles east of Chatteris (from Chatteris: bearing 94°T, OS grid TL 470 859), and is situated west of Pymoor village. The landscape here remains defined by the relentless, flat geometry of the Fens, where the water table dictates the rhythm of every passing season. To the northeast, the vast expanse of the Ouse Washes SSSI acts as a seasonal reservoir, holding winter floods in a silver mirror that reflects the shifting moods of the clouds. Welches Dam remains tied to this hydrological pulse, a place where the stillness is punctuated only by the rhythmic call of wading birds rising from the reeds. The light across these fields possesses a crystalline clarity, stripping away artifice to reveal the raw, dark peat soil that has long sustained the local agricultural character. Further west, the ancient, rounded silhouettes of the bowl barrows near Honey Hill Farm offer a quiet reminder of human persistence across this unforgiving, marshy terrain. Here, the boundary between the drained land and the wild water remains a fragile, shifting line.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Pymoor Village Sign (Public Artwork) — 1.6 mi, 082° E
Ouse Washes Sssi (Site of Special Scientific Interest) — 1.7 mi, 041° NE · 25k acres
Bowl Barrow 600M West Of Honey Hill Farm (Scheduled Monument) — 2.4 mi, 303° WNW
Vermuden's Drain (River) — 2.5 mi, 287° WNW
Bowl Barrow 250M South Of Honey Farm (Scheduled Monument) — 2.7 mi, 306° NW
Bowl Barrow 580M East Of Mount Pleasant Bridge (Scheduled Monument) — 2.7 mi, 304° NW
Honey Hill (Hill / Mountain) — 2.8 mi, 305° NW
Crooked Drain (River) — 2.9 mi, 217° SW
Widden's Hill (Hill / Mountain) — 3.2 mi, 207° SSW
Witcham Equestrian Centre (Attraction) — 3.5 mi, 193° SSW
Gault Hole (Wetland) — 4.0 mi, 214° SSW
Burrow Pond (Lake / Reservoir) — 4.1 mi, 258° WSW
Robin Knight's Pond (Lake / Reservoir) — 4.2 mi, 269° W
Stanker's Pond (Lake / Reservoir) — 4.5 mi, 196° SSW
Stonea Camp (Attraction) — 4.6 mi, 344° NNW
Chettisham Meadow Sssi (Site of Special Scientific Interest) — 4.8 mi, 114° ESE
Museum of Armed Police (Museum) — 4.8 mi, 271° W
Chatteris Museum (Museum) — 4.8 mi, 272° W
Jubilee Clock (Monument) — 5.3 mi, 306° NW
RAF Witchford Display of Memorabilia (Museum) — 5.4 mi, 153° SSE
St Mary's Green (Park) — 5.5 mi, 132° SE
Ely Museum (Museum) — 5.5 mi, 130° SE
Oliver Cromwell's House (Attraction) — 5.5 mi, 132° SE
Palace Green (Park) — 5.6 mi, 131° SE
The Stained Glass Museum (Museum) — 5.6 mi, 131° SE
Ely Cathedral (Attraction) — 5.6 mi, 131° SE
Hayward Theatre (Theatre) — 5.6 mi, 132° SE
"Division Bell" view of the Cathedral (Viewpoint) — 6.3 mi, 133° SE
Sustrans waymark (Viewpoint) — 6.9 mi, 142° SE
Stone Cross (Monument) — 7.0 mi, 332° NNW

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