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Saturday is Little Thetford Village Feast Day – there’s so much going on, do come out and support the village – whatever the weather!

Paul Howard took this terrific sequence of pictures of a fox at play in the village (click on the image below to see all five pictures) . The pictures have also been added to the gallery (under Nature).

Fox at play (Paul Howard)

The latest Little Thetford Parish Newsletter (Aug/Sep 2010), is now online.

We have put together a video created from a collection of 230 still photos, showing the construction of the timber framed building behind The Round House over a period of about 5 days at the end of May 2010. Many thanks to David Moss for kindly letting us use his aerial stills.

There is a Little Thetford discussion forum online where our visitors can openly discuss topics about Little Thetford, the parish, the website or anything else you can think of that might be related to the village.

We’d like to invite our website visitors (that’s you!) to use the forum and try it out:

It’s really easy to register – you just need a minimum of a username and an email address of your choice. After entering these details and clicking on the Register button, you’ll get an email a moment later, with a link back to the site, and a password which you can use to log in and post replies and start new topics.

Tip: If you don’t like your password, then after logging in once, you can change it by clicking on your name at the top and then on the Edit button (at the right) to change your profile details.

We look forward to hearing from you on the forum!

We have a fascinating Now-and-Then animated comparison of a view west along Main Street towards Horseshoes – the site of the old Three Horseshoes pub. The scene flips between 1906 and 2010.

Note the large old building on the right, no longer present, and the pond on the left where the village sign is no, but also see how little Horseshoes has changed in over 100 years!

[ Thanks to Bob Young for the older picture and John McCullough for the present day photo. ]

We have started to produce an interactive map of the parish showing footpaths and points of interest. We hope our visitors will find this of interest. We look forward to hearing what you would like to see added to the map.

We’ll be adding information to the map over time, but in particular, we would love to get photographs to show at points along the parish footpaths, so if anyone with a digital camera who uses the footpaths can help out by sending us pictures (photos at littlethetford dot org) and tell us exactly as possible where they were taken, that would be fantastic!

Enjoy!

Interactive Parish Map

Before Cowslip Drive was built in it’s present form in 1995, an excavation was undertaken by Cambridge Archaeology Unit that uncovered remains showing the site was an Iron Age site and subsequently nearly 2000 years ago, a Romano-British Site. Who would have thought!?

If you live n Cowslip Drive, just imagine who might have been wandering around your living room 2000 years ago!

Read the following page on this site to find out more.

Cowslip Drive archaeological dig before building in 1995

The Ely Standard reports today that a tree planted in Ely’s Jubilee Gardens in memory of Little Thetford resident Ken Pease has been found at the weekend snapped in two – and not for the first time it seems. Ken died aged 18 in 1986 after contracting a rare form of meningitis.

See the Ely Standard (1 July edition, top of page 5) for more information.

Little Thetford flesh-hook

We are proud to announce that the wikipedia article Little Thetford flesh-hook, an archaeological description of a bronze-age artefact, has been approved for use on the front page of wikipedia at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page. The front page of wikipedia has world-wide reach. The article will appear in the “Did you know?” section of the front page (below the featured article section) for six hours between 07:00 1-July 2010 and 13:00 1-July 2010. The article will appear similar to the following:

.. that the Little Thetford flesh-hook is a late Bronze-age (1000 – 701 BC) artefact discovered in 1929 in Little Thetford, near Ely, Cambridgeshire, England?

Also, see the history section of Little Thetford main article for details of the Anglo-Saxon noblewoman Ælfwaru, our oldest known landowner.

Contact: John McCullough 01353649469

[Update] Here’s the article as shown on Wikipedia on 1 July 2010.

Little Thetford flesh hook on Wikipedia's Did You Know section