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Westry

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St Mary's Church, Westry geograph.org.uk 670368
St Mary's Church, Westry geograph.org.uk 670368

Westry is a village in Cambridgeshire, England. It lies to the northwest of March on the A141 to Wisbech. The Church of St Mary was erected in 1873 to a design by Thomas Henry Wyatt. It is a Grade II listed building. The church was gutted by fire in an arson attack on 15 March 2010 but reopened in 2014 after its insurers paid for a £2.2m renovation.

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Westry
Wisbech Road, Fenland District

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N 52.569 ° E 0.06 °
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Wisbech Road
PE15 0BA Fenland District
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March railway station
March railway station

March railway station is on the Ely–Peterborough line in the east of England and serves the market town of March, Cambridgeshire. It is 85 miles 76 chains (138.3 km) measured from London Liverpool Street via Ely and is situated between Manea and Whittlesea stations. The station, which was opened in 1847, was once a major junction with a number of lines radiating from the town. The station has been the scene of a number of accidents including a double train crash in 1896.The station has since reduced in importance, with several lines being dismantled or mothballed. The regional route between Ely and Peterborough still runs through the station and an increasing number of freight trains pass through. The station originally had seven platforms. However, two of these are now filled-in bay platforms and the track has been removed from a further west-facing bay on the southern side of the station. There are now just two operational platforms, although track has been re-laid on two disused platforms on the northern side of the station and it is anticipated that these may be used should proposals to re-open the line to Wisbech come to fruition. The nearby Whitemoor marshalling yard returned to use in 2004 having been disused since the early 1990s. In 2021, a Victorian ledger dating back to April 1885 was found after it fell from the loft of the station when contractors were removing rotten wood work. The ledger is planned to go on display at the station. In March 2022, the station car park was resurfaced and repainted.