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Our village is a mixture of some old houses and new ones. This one is old, but I do not know when it was built.  I guess it is 200m from our...

  This is an innovative use of an old tree stump. It is filled with flowers that look lovely at this time of year.

On the Causeway (a tree lined road in our village) they had to cut down a tree.  I am so pleased they have made a feature of it by planting ...

This is a quiet green in our village, surrounded by houses. We like to photograph this in the autumn when the trees lose their leaves.

This property is one of the older ones in our village. I have no idea when it dates from.  There is a mix of old and new properties in Burwe...

  This photo collage was taken yesterday.

  This is a quiet lane in our village. With blossom and daffodils there are plenty of signs of spring.

  Dodging the showers we did a 4.5km walk around our village.

This was our village sign yesterday.  It is located on a place called Pound Hill as it was once the location of the village pound where anim...

At least in this part of the UK, it has seemed a long, dull winter as this photo shows. Our village of Burwell has a couple of  main centres...

This was our local church some summers ago. It will (all too) soon be spring. This winter has felt very long for some reason with lots of du...

This is a quiet part of our village. Snowdrops are out!

This is a view of the church tower in our village from an unusual angle. In places it is almost 1000 years old.

This is our local church with a fairly recent house (designed to blend in really well) with snowdrops in the foreground.

This is Church Lane in our village.

Yesterday we walked to our village garden nursery to buy some plants.  Opposite was a plaque to an old Jewish cemetery. It is called "J...

When we came to this village in 1975 the population was just over 4000. Now it is approaching 8000. Some prefer to expand their homes rather...

 Edward Fitzball was a famous lyricist in the 1800s . He lived in this cottage in our village (Burwell).

There were several vintage cars at our local museum and windmill on Sunday. See  https://burwellmuseum.org.uk/  .

  There is a mix of both old and new houses in our village.