Eye, Cambridgeshire
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Coordinates: 52°36′07″N 0°12′00″W / 52.602°N 0.200°W
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 Eye parish church of St.Matthew's |
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 Eye
Eye shown within Cambridgeshire |
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| OS grid reference | TF2202 |
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| Unitary authority | Peterborough |
| Ceremonial county | Cambridgeshire |
| Region | East |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| EU Parliament | East of England |
| List of places: UK • England • Cambridgeshire | |
Eye is a village in the unitary authority area of Peterborough in England, south of Crowland and Eye Green. It was formerly in the Soke of Peterborough in Northamptonshire.
Its name came from Anglo-Saxon īeg = "island",[1] likeliest here "dry ground in marsh".
[edit] History
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There has been a church there since at least 1543. The present church, St. Matthew's, was built in 1846. Originally built with a spire, this was removed fairly recently for safety reasons and now has a roofed tower. Eye Cornmill was a windmill with eight sails. Eye is separated from its sister village of Eye Green by the A47 trunk road. Eye was previously one of the brickmaking villages of the Peterborough area, along with Fletton, Yaxley and Stanground. There was a brickpit (a quarry for clay for making bricks). northolme in Crowland Road was the site of the Brick works Social club. When this closed the buildings and pit were taken over by the British Sub Aqua Club and run as a National Dive Site, managed by the Peterborough Branch. When this closed the buildings were demolished; the brickpit is now a nature reserve.
Eye is a large village by local standards and contains many amenities now lost in rural England. These include a post office, three pubs, a kebab and pizza shop, a fish and chip shop, a butcher, a bakery, a cafe and a tanning salon. There is a Londis store that stocks a small range of fresh fruit and vegetables. There is also a pharmacy, medical centre, hairdresser and Italian restaurant.
The three-mile £7m A47 Eye bypass opened in October 1991.
There was an Eye Green railway station on the line between Peterborough and Norfolk, which closed many years ago.[citation needed]
[edit] References
- ^ "IA-IELDFUL" (.tiff). A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary. Second Edition (1916). http://lexicon.ff.cuni.cz/tiff/oe_clarkhall/b0174.tiff. Retrieved 11 February 2008.
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