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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Friday Bridge like this:
FRIDAY-BRIDGE, a chapelry in Elm parish, Cambridge; near the Wisbeach canal and the Cambridge and Wisbeach railway, 3 miles SSE of Wisbeach. It was constituted in 1860; and it has a post office under Wisbeach. Pop., 869. Houses, 168. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ely. Value, £300.* Patron, the Bishop of Ely. The church was built in 1865.
Friday Bridge is now part of FENLAND District. Click here for graphs and data of how FENLAND has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Friday Bridge itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Friday Bridge, in Fenland and Cambridgeshire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/23832
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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