Fenland

Fenland is a district in Cambridgeshire at latitude 52°36′00.00″ North, longitude 0°06′00.00″ East.

Fenland is the most rural of the five districts of Cambridgeshire with an administrative centre in March. It also includes the towns of Wisbech, Chatteris, Whittlesey and has a 2004 population of over 86,000

At October 2009, this is the least well mapped part of Cambridgeshire with only March having substantial presence.

But by June 2010 we've worked hard on this to complete pretty much all of it.

See also neighbours:

• East Cambridgeshire
• Huntingdonshire

Progress - Wisbech

At over 20,000 people, this is the largest town in Fenland. The neighbouring communities of Leverington, Elm, Emneth (Norfolk) and Wisbech St Mary bring the total for this conurbation to nearly 30,000.

A mapping party on 14/15 November 2009 completed most of Wisbech town and most of Leverington, though a bit of the data is still being added as at November 24. Some technical problems meant some of the centre was not completed, and a further visit the following week was rained off, so unfortunately we still have a little to do.

... but now complete as of March 2010 including all the surrounding villages.

Progress - March

Appears complete (almost all by Laverock in mid 2008). Pop. 20,000

Progress - Whittlesey

Almost nothing of this 16,000 strong community mapped at Oct 2009.

Proposed mapping party for April 2010. Anyone interested please contact me at https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/davidearl

Following the mapping "party" (two people) in April and a subsequent one-man visit in May, the town of Whittlesey is complete, although some of the outlying villages still need surveying.

Coates and Eastrea surveyed Oct 2011 Richardm565

Progress - Chatteris

Almost nothing of this 9,000 strong community mapped at Oct 2009.

I started mapping Chatteris in January 2010 and intend to complete it over the next few months. --TomS 10:53, 10 February 2010 (UTC)

Progress - Fenland district

Fenland has quite a small number of parishes, but they are rather large in area and account for only about 20,000 of the population outside the four main towns.

Note that Walsoken is a suburb of Wisbech but lies in Norfolk, and is complete as of Nov 2009.

Also, Emneth is a necklace village of Wisbech (to the SE), also in Norfolk and also completed Nov 2009.

Parish and Town Councils in Fenland

Fenland District boundary: 295349 295349