Burwell /ˈbɜːrwɛl/ is a village and civil parish in Cambridgeshire, England, some 10 miles (16 km) north-east of Cambridge.

Other burned and worked flint has been found close to the spring, dating from the late Neolithic,[16] but most of the activity in the area at the time seemed to have been on the fen to the west of the village, where a large number of flint and stone tools discovered on a raised piece of ground suggest there was already settlement before the onset of the https://uploadpie.com/NASxMyBronze Age.

[17] During the Neolithic, peat began to form on the fenland round the village, which partly buried the prehistoric sites.

[22] As Burwell entered the Iron Age, activity on the fens to the west appears to have decreased as the conditions became more marshy.

[32] The village is located at the head of Burwell Lode, a human-made waterway that connects it with the River Cam.

[33] The lode splits in two at the village, each branch serving a series of basins, warehouses and wharves located at the bottom of long strips of land, with merchants' houses at the far end of them.

[34] The village and lode gained importance with the opening in the 1850s of the Burwell Chemical Works owned by T. T. Ball.

Despite a settlement that the throne would pass to Henry II on Stephen's death, the Barons took the opportunity to fight their own battles.

On 8 September 1727, a travelling puppet show was filled with onlookers in a Burwell barn in what is now Cuckolds Row, near the centre of the village.

[36]At the Assizes at Cambridge, one Richard Whiteker, charged upon suspicion of setting fire to a Barn in Burwell, in which about 125 Persons that were in it to see a Puppit Shew were burnt or otherwise destroy'd, was try'd and acquitted of the Fact.

[37]The victims were buried in the churchyard of St Mary's, at the opposite end of the High Street, beneath a stone engraved with a blazing heart and angels' wings.

An inscription on the reverse, added in 1910 when the stone was restored, states: "To the memory of the 78 people who were burnt to death in a barn at Burwell on Sept 8th 1727."

[39] The Ipswich Journal of 26 February 1774 reported how "an old man who died recently near Newmarket who just before his death confessed that he set fire to a barn at Burwell, Cambridgeshire on the 8th of September 1727 when no less than 80 persons lost their lives and that having an antipathy to the puppet showman was the cause of him committing the action."

A larger Burwell electoral division provides one councillor to Cambridgeshire County Council, convening at Shire Hall in Cambridge.

Burwell included the south-west edge of Staploe Hundred, along with the nearby parishes of Chippenham, Fordham, Isleham, Kennett, Landwade, Snailwell, Soham and Wicken.

Between 1888 and 1965, the village fell within a smaller administrative county of Cambridgeshire, covering only the southern part of the present one.

Until the mid-20th century, a building material known as clunch – a soft rock which is one type of chalk limestone – was dug in Burwell.

[50] Burwell has a small area of woodland planted in 1998 as a community project to mark the coming millennium.

A parade travels from Margaret Field in the south of the village to the Recreational Ground, where stalls and fairground rides are present.

The villages holds an annual Christmas Eve fund raising event which is run by business executive James Pryor.

Eastern Counties absorbed Burwell and District in 1979, the local bus company having provided transport to nearby Cambridge, Newmarket and Bury St Edmunds, and to destinations further afield, such as Great Yarmouth and Felixstowe.

[58] To the north of the village, temporary tramways provided access from the nearby Ipswich to Ely Line to the local brickworks, situated near the Lode.

[65][66] Children attend Burwell Village College (Primary) up to the age of 11 and then go to secondary schools at either Soham or Bottisham.

Opened in 1992, it occupies a collection of buildings, some reconstructed from other sites, such as an 18th-century timber-framed barn, and others built in local style mainly with reclaimed materials, such as the wagon sheds/granary display area.

[68] Burwell has a large, Grade I-listed parish church in the High Street in the south of the village.

Dedicated to St Mary the Virgin, the church is in Perpendicular Gothic style and dates back to the 15th century, although some parts are older.

Located near St Mary's, Trinity is a small church founded by a merger of the Methodist and United Reformed communities in 1988.

[71] Burwell Cricket Club[72] is based on Tan House Lane, with a 1st XI in the East Anglian Premier League.

Among several books on the village is an illustrated Memories of Burwell by Frank Czucha published in April 2017, available locally.