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Robbs Chase, WISBECH, PE14 8TB

A view along the edge of Well Creek by the church in Outwell.

This old telephone box is located by the spot where the old Wisbech canal has been infilled. A bridge once used to take the Wisbech & Upwell tramway over the canal just behind the telephone kiosk (marked by the notice board beside it, at left). The Wisbech Canal (opened in 1797) - planned as a means to improve the status of Wisbech as a trading centre - linked the River Nene at Wisbech with Well Creek (the old course of the River Nene) at Outwell. It was constructed on embankments for most of its 8.4 km length because of the low level of the Fen landscape. When the Wisbech and Upwell Tramway opened in 1883, running parallel with the canal, the coal transported by the railway was initially loaded into boats for further transport but by 1922 all traffic had ceased and in 1926 the canal was abandoned. Derelict for many decades, the section nearer Wisbech was filled in during the early 1970s, allowing for the construction of the A1101/Churchill Road link without destroying the historic town centre. The rest of the canal was used as a landfill site. All that remains is a long strip of green, separating the A1101 and the A1122, which here run parallel with each other. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisbech_Canal

With a view to the Costcutter supermarket, located on Church Drove, beyond.

The narrow path seen in foreground links Isle Road (A1101) with Wisbech Road (A1122), crossing the infilled Wisbech canal > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1241681.

View over a bridge which takes Rectory Road (A1101) over the old course of the River Nene. The road seen beyond is the A1122 (Wisbech Road). This view was taken from the entrance of a cul-de-sac called The Tramway, once the entrance to Wisbech & Upwell tramway's Outwell Village depot. Wisbech & Upwell tramway's Upwell depot > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1241222 was 5 miles 72 chains distant from Wisbech. The line had eleven sidings, with two originally allocated for passenger traffic. During the fruit season the sidings could hold more than a hundred vans. The depot had a cattle dock, a depot office, a passenger waiting room, and a coal merchant's office and staithes. There was also an ash pit, and an old GER tender was used for a water tower until 1953 when it was removed. http://www.lner.info/co/GER/wisbech/route.shtml From the Upwell depot, which was the southern terminus of the tramway, the trains headed northwards > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1241251 to the village of Outwell, crossing Small Lode > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1241268 and passing a farm before emerging on Low Side > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1241442 which was the final request stop. A farm driveway now runs where the railway trackbed used to be > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1241431. Outwell Village depot was located by the old course of the River Nene and adjoined by St Clement's church on the other side. It originally had four sidings and was equipped with coal chutes to transfer coal to barges for distribution through the Fens. The depot had a small office building built from red brick > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1241479 and an old van body for storage. The brick office still stands, but most of the depot site has since been built over by modern housing > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1241458. The name of the cul-de-sac/access road is called "The Tramway".