Gedney Hill

The Museum of Technology the History of Gadgets and Gizmos (formerly The Museum of Technology, The Great War and WWII) is a technology museum in Throckenholt, a village in Lincolnshire, England, UK. The museum was originally started in the Old Town of Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire. After operating there for 15 years, the collection moved to a new, purpose-built centre in Throckenholt. The trustees spent four years creating the new space to house the collection. The new museum opened in August 2016. The displayed objects present the evolution of electrical, electronic, and warfare technology from 1850 to 1980, including World War I and World War II. The museum closes from October to May and opens on Thursdays Fridays and Saturdays during the summer months. Details of opening times are shown on the web site www.museumoftechnology.org.uk Many of the artefacts on display can be demonstrated, allow 1 to 2 hours to see the eclectic collection.The museum's former Hemel Hempstead site is due to reopen as a manicure salon and beauty parlour.

Throckenholt is a village in the civil parish of Sutton St Edmund (where the population is listed) in the South Holland district of Lincolnshire, England. It is located close to the border of Cambridgeshire about 16 miles (26 km) south-east of Spalding, 14 miles (23 km) west of Wisbech and 10 miles (16 km) south of Holbeach. The Museum of Technology, The Great War and WWII is in the village and opened its doors in 2016. Throckenholt Priory was sited here, it was a hermitage and chapel in existence from at least 1107–1540. It was granted to Thorney Abbey by Nigel, Bishop of Ely.Throckenholt was written as 'Trokenholt' in the 1240 Papal Rolls.

French Drove and Gedney Hill was a station on the Great Northern and Great Eastern Joint Railway near Gedney Hill in south Lincolnshire on the line between Spalding and March.

Holbeach Drove is a village in the South Holland district of Lincolnshire, England. It is situated approximately 5 miles (8 km) east from Crowland, and at the junction of the B1166 and the B1168 roads. The village church is dedicated to St Polycarp. There is one local public house, the Golden Ball, and a shop-cum-petrol station.

Parson Drove is a fen village and civil parish in the Isle of Ely, Cambridgeshire, England. A linear settlement, it is 6 miles (10 km) west of Wisbech, the nearest town. The village is named after the central thoroughfare along which the village developed, a green drove, much wider than the current metalled road (B1166). The population at the 2001 Census was 1,030. The city of Peterborough is 19 miles (31 km) to the west, and the town of King's Lynn is 21 miles (34 km) to the east.

Football Club Parson Drove is a football club based in Parson Drove, Cambridgeshire, England. They are currently members of the Eastern Counties League Division One North and play at Main Road.

Murrow West railway station was a station on the Great Northern and Great Eastern Joint Railway in Murrow, Cambridgeshire between Spalding, England, and March. It opened in 1867 and was closed by the British Transport Commission in July 1953 due to low usage. The line itself survived until its closure by British Rail in November 1982. The station has mostly been demolished although the signal box still survives, having been converted into a private dwelling after the closure of the line and subsequent removal of the track. A second station for the village, Murrow East railway station, was situated on the Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway a short distance away - this route intersected the GN&GE Joint line on the level immediately to the north of Murrow West station and signal box.

Murrow East railway station was a station in Murrow, Cambridgeshire. It was on the Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway line between Wisbech and Peterborough. There was another station in the settlement, Murrow West railway station, on the Great Northern and Great Eastern Joint Railway.

Whaplode Drove is a village in the civil parish of Whaplode , in the South Holland district of Lincolnshire, England. It is approximately 10 miles (16 km) south from the market town of Spalding. The hamlet of Shepeau Stow is 1 mile (1.6 km) to the south-west. Whaplode Drove is a largely rural village and lies in the middle of the Lincolnshire Fens. The name 'Whaplode' derives from the Old English cwappa-lad meaning 'eel pout watercourse'.

Murrow is a village in the civil parish of Wisbech St Mary, in Cambridgeshire, England. The village is on Murrow Bank, the B1187 road, 5 miles (8 km) west from the town of Wisbech. Its population is included in the civil parish of Parson Drove. Murrow has a village store, and The Bell Inn public house which is owned by Elgood's Brewery.

Wryde railway station was a station serving Wryde, Cambridgeshire on the Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway between Wisbech and Peterborough. Originally built by the Peterborough, Wisbech and Sutton Bridge Railway, it was opened for goods traffic on 1 June 1866 and for passengers on 1 August of the same year. There was no passing loop at this station until 1906 when one was installed as part of the general upgrading of the line made to improve the King's Cross, Peterborough, Sheringham and Cromer services run in collaboration with the Great Northern Railway. Passenger services were withdrawn on 2 December 1957, but goods trains travelling between Murrow and the brickworks at Dogsthorpe, near Peterborough, continued to pass through the station until 31 October 1965.