Isleham

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Isleham lies on the fen edge near the Suffolk border, between Ely and Newmarket. Its rarity is a small Norman chapel kept by English Heritage, the surviving church of an old priory, standing near the much larger medieval parish church, St Andrew’s.

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Photo of Prickwillow Museum, a visitor attraction near Ely, Cambridgeshire, eastern England.

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Photo of Wicken Fen, a National Nature Reserve near Reach, Cambridgeshire, eastern England.

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