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- Headlines & reports '98 on
- Why I stopped updating
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Recreation, Sport
- Playing Field & Pavilion
  - Pavilion
  - Proposed New Pavilion
  - Play equipment
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  - home
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- Fishing
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Social activities
- Proposed New Pavilion
- Bingo
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- Friendship Club
- Line Dancing
- Womens Institute
- Yoga
- Youth club
Visitor attractions
- WWT visitor centre
History
- Fens & drainage
- Skating
- William Marshall
- Schools
  - Lakes End
  - Suspension Bridge
  - Welney
- Churches & Chapels
- Farming, 1880-1980
- Pubs (inns, taverns, etc)
- Wartime
  - Aircraft crashes
  - Civil Defence
  - Fire Brigade
  - Home Guard
  - War Memorials
    - WW1
    - WW2
People of Welney
- Lives & memories
  - Booth, Denis
  - Dockerty, Mary
  - Giles, Roger
  - Goodger, Ken
  - James, Raymond
  - Markham family
  - Turner, Bryan
- Obituaries index
  - Barry, Helen
  - Bedford, Lil
  - Bedford, Peter (Pop)
  - Booth, Denis
  - Carter, Harold
  - Carter, Walter
  - Coo, Bert
  - Cox, Charlotte
  - Cox, Gerald
  - Fisher, Tom
  - Giles, Frank
  - Green, Roy
  - James, Ernie
  - Johansen, Peter
  - Revett, Don
  - Rolfe, Thomas
  - Rowlett, Reg
  - Scott, Peter
  - Singleterry, Madge
  - Sorenson, Ken
  - Thompson, Bill
  - Waring, John
  - Watson, Horace
  - Wright, Lauren
- The Markham family
Church
- St. Mary's Welney
- (see also "HIstory")
Schools
- Lakes End
- Suspension Bridge
- Welney (Wm Marshall Pri)
- Closure of W.M Pri Sch
A1101 Flooding overview
Local Government
- Welney Parish Ccl
  - Members
  - Minutes from 2004
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    - Full index 2004-13
Business
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Links to other local sites

Jan.2018. MUCH OF THIS WEBSITE HAS NOT BEEN UPDATED FOR SEVERAL YEARS BUT REMAINS ONLINE AS A REFERENCE FACILITY; SOME INFORMATION WILL NOW BE OUT OF DATE.
Feb 2025. Links to theft of public money by a former Parish Clerk, Mrs Pat Copeman, have been added

SITE NAVIGATION

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Below, the old alphabetical list with brief details of page contents.

Left, a multi-level pop-out/fly-out menu. The first level allows you to choose the main page or subject index as in the alphabetical list, but by mousing across you can go directly to a particular sub-page, section or sub-section with a single click. For example, if you want to see the latest available minutes of Welney Parish Council, mouse over Local Government, then move right, through the Council's name to the next box. Mouse over "Minutes" then right again to the current year, and right again to the latest month. Click that and up will pop a PDF version of the original Word document. (Note, minutes open in new Wndows or tabs so you can have several open at once to follow a topic.)

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CONTENTS, A-Z

About this site The 'small print' - copyright, privacy policy, aims, history, funding, management & technical details.
Aircraft crashes during WW2
Angling Club (see also Fishing below)
Barrier Bank works 2017-2021 and extra heavy traffic in Tipps End 2017
Community Centre from proposal to permission to passed-away.
Children's play equipment at playing field.
Church the history of Welney St. Mary's. For service details, events & contacts go to the United Benefice's own site
Civil Defence Corps during WW2
Contact webmaster With news, ideas, photos, comments, praise or complaints.
Cricket The Welney Croft Cricket club sub-site, results and reports season by season, & a history of cricket in Welney.
Colony The story of a utopian society and a great deal more, now on its own much expanded website
Cygnets
Fens
Farming in Welney - a pictorial history from 1880 to 1980 and articles and photos about farming today.
Fire Service in Welney during WW2
Fishing
Flat Earth Experiments How the Old Bedford River was used to try to prove the earth was not a globe but flat.
Flooding of the A1101 Welney Wash Road
Football History of Welney United FC. Several pages of of named photos, players appearances, records, awards, etc.
Fraud by a former parish clerk who stole £30,000 from Parish Council
Friendship club fun for the over 60s. DISCONTINUED.
Guestbook entries for 2001-2005. A very old page, old in style and content!
Headlines, 2000-2012 Twelve years of Welney Headlines!
History history of Welney parish
Home page an introduction to Welney
Home Guard in Welney during WW2
Kart racing The Wisbech & District Kart club provide exciting well organised racing in Welney & help a local charity.
Links to other local sites More than 20 sites in and around Welney - clubs, organisations, Councils
Manea Colony A utopian dream, war against France, the Poor Laws, the Littleport Riots, a millionaires retreat, and a great deal more, now on a sister website
Marshall's Charity Welney has benefited from a generous benefactor, William Marshall, for over 340 years.
Millennium Arts Project How the community worked together in 2000 to mark the Millennium creating the Welney 'MAP', the Welney Archives & Website
new Community Centre / Parish Hall from proposal to permission to plop. (Another Utopian Dream?)
new Pavilion instead of the 'Community Hall' as the intended combined replacement for current (2014) Pavilion the Parish Hall
News Headlines from 1998
News Tweets from June 2015 yes folks, the webmaster has now joined Twitter. His tweets and retweets have a wide selection of news and info.
Obituaries
Ouse Washes drainage & flood protection overview
Parish Action Plan The 2008 guide for the future (A 38-page PDF file of 10MB & may take several minutes to load).
Parish Council who they are, what they do and what they should do.
Parish Council fraud/theft by a former parish clerk
Parish Council Minutes of meetings from Jan 2005 to date. Also shows councillors attendance records up to 2012
Parish Hall
Pavilion - current (ie, old)
Pavilion - proposed new
People lives and memories of local folk
Playing Field
Play equipment at playing field
Postal services
Pubs
Rivers
Roll of Honour servicemen who died in two world wars
School History of William Marshall School 1827-2010, & old photos.
School - POSSIBLE CLOSURE AUGUST 2015
Shop We said farewell to Pete and Wendy, and their Post Office Stores better know locally simply as "Wendy's"
Sewage Treatment scheme 1 Would have blighted and de-valued many homes; withdrawn following public campaign by residents of Tipps End and Lakes End
Sewage Treatment scheme 2 Offering first-time mains sewerage to a limited number of properties and only to those who can afford to be connected!
Skating. A short history of Welney's famous speed skaters.
Suspension Bridge History of the bridge and the area named after it
Slideshows
Theft of £30,000 from Parish Council by a former parish clerk
Tipps End/Tipsend Including an amusing article by former resident David Lewis/ Page has many links to other Tipps End items.
Utopian Dream - see Manea Colony, or Colony, above
Village sign
Wash Road flooding
Water Supply and Water Tower (page in production, due early 2013)
Webmasters postbag
Website archives of reports, articles, comments, obituaries and other pages from earlier website editions.
Welmore Lake Sluice
"Welney News" The history of a great parish-newsletter. Plus details of the current team.
Welney Parish Council. See 'Parish Council' above
William Marshall - our great benefactor
Womens Institute
WWT Wetland & Wildlife Trust visitor centre
Yoga
Youth Club

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