Wicken
Wicken is a village near Soham in East Cambridgeshire, England. The village is on the edge of The Fens, 10 miles north east of Cambridge and 5 miles south of Ely. It is the site of Wicken Fen National Nature Reserve.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Bob Jones, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Photo: Bob Jones, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Village with 698 residents
- Description: village and civil parish in Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom
- Also known as: “Wicken, Cambridgeshire”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Wicken Fen and Maids Head Public House.
Wicken Fen
Nature reserve
Photo: Dr Border, Public domain.
Wicken Fen is a 254.5-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest west of Wicken in Cambridgeshire. It is also a National Nature Reserve, and a Nature Conservation Review site.
Spinney Abbey
Farm
Spinney Abbey, originally known as Spinney Priory, is a house and farm on the site of a former monastic foundation close to the village of Wicken, on the edge of the fens in Cambridgeshire, England.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Soham and Burwell.
Soham
Town
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Soham is a town and civil parish in the district of East Cambridgeshire, in Cambridgeshire, England, just off the A142 between Ely and Newmarket. Its population was 12,336 at the 2021 census. Soham is situated 2 miles northeast of Wicken.
Burwell
Village
Reach
Village
Photo: Ian Mitchell, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Reach is a small village and civil parish on the edge of the fenland in East Cambridgeshire, England at the north end of Devil's Dyke, about 1.5 miles west of Burwell. Reach is situated 3 miles south of Wicken.
Wicken
- Categories: civil parish and locality
- Location: Wicken, East Cambridgeshire, Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
52.31263° or 52° 18′ 46″ northLongitude
0.29948° or 0° 17′ 58″ eastPopulation
698Elevation
36 feet (11 metres)Open location code
9F42877X+3QOpenStreetMap ID
node 24972761OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2633980Wikidata ID
Q7998321
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Wicken” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “ويكن”
- Cebuano: “Wicken”
- Chinese: “Wicken”
- Dutch: “Wicken”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ويكن”
- French: “Wicken”
- Irish: “Wicken”
- Italian: “Wicken (Cambridgeshire)”
- Italian: “Wicken”
- Japanese: “ウィッケン (ケンブリッジシャー)”
- Ladin: “Wicken (Cambridgeshire)”
- Ladin: “Wicken”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Wicken (Cambridgeshire)”
- Persian: “ویکن”
- Polish: “Wicken (Cambridgeshire)”
- Polish: “Wicken”
- Spanish: “Wicken (Cambridgeshire)”
- Spanish: “Wicken”
- Swedish: “Wicken, Cambridgeshire”
- Swedish: “Wicken”
- Welsh: “Wicken, Swydd Gaergrawnt”
- Welsh: “Wicken”
- “Wicken”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Wicken”. Photo: Bob Jones, CC BY-SA 2.0.