Pondersbridge is a village in Whittlesey civil parish, part of the Fenland district of Cambridgeshire, England.
Pondersbridge is a settlement which has built up around the river crossing, situated on an artificial drainage cutting called Bevill's Leam.
[4] Ordnance Survey maps from the 1920s show an agricultural tramway running from Bevills' Leam to the northeast of the village to Engine Farm then southwest and southeast across Glass Fen.
[5][6][7][8][9] Transcribed from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland 1868: PONDERSBRIDGE, a hamlet in the parish of Stanground, hundred of Norman-Cross, county Huntingdon.
[11] The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5 described Ponds Bridge, Cambridgeshire like this: Ponds Bridge, an ecclesiastical parish formed in 1866 from portions of the parishes of Stanground and Ramsey in Hunts and Whittlesea in Cambridgeshire, 3 miles NW from St Mary's station on the Holme and Ramsey branch of the G.N.R., and 6 SE from Peterborough.
The church, erected in 1866, is an edifice of stone in the Decorated style, consisting of chancel, nave, S transept, and bell-turret.
The church of St. Thomas, erected by subscription in 1866, is a building of stone in the Decorated style, consisting of chancel, nave, south transept and a bell turret carried on a buttress at the north-west angle, and containing 1 bell: in the chancel are a piscina and sedilia and four stained windows: the font consists of an octagonal basin on four alabaster shafts, and is richly carved: there are 300 sittings.