Spinney Abbey
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.- Type: Farm
- Description: house in Wicken, Cambridgeshire, England, UK
- Also known as: “Spinney Priory”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Wicken Fen and Soham railway station.
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.
Soham railway station
Railway station
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Soham railway station is a station on the Ipswich–Ely line, serving the town of Soham in Cambridgeshire. The original station operated between 1879 and 1965. It was reopened in 2021. Soham railway station is situated 2 miles northeast of Spinney Abbey.
Maids Head Public House
Pub
Photo: Michael Dibb, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Maids Head Public House is situated 1¼ miles southeast of Spinney Abbey.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Wicken and Soham.
Wicken
Village
Photo: Bob Jones, CC BY-SA 2.0.
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.
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 2½ miles east of Spinney Abbey.
Little Thetford
Village
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Little Thetford is a small village in the civil parish of Thetford, 3 miles south of Ely in Cambridgeshire, England, about 76 miles by road from London. Little Thetford is situated 3 miles northwest of Spinney Abbey.
Spinney Abbey
- Categories: house and agriculture
- Location: Wicken, East Cambridgeshire, Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
52.32275° or 52° 19′ 22″ northLongitude
0.28096° or 0° 16′ 52″ eastOpen location code
9F4287FJ+49OpenStreetMap ID
node 26117024OpenStreetMap feature
landuse=farmWikidata ID
Q7577603
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In Other Languages
“Spinney Abbey” goes by many names.
- Japanese: “スピネイ・アベイ”
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