Welcome
to our web site!
Here you can find information about the pottery studio – be it to buy
pieces, purchase gift vouchers, come for tuition,
or hire studio time, to do your own
work.
If
you are looking for B&B accommodation in our wonderfully quiet corner of
West Norfolk go no further than our Bed &
Breakfast page.
We
hope to see you in West Norfolk in 2008 !
Bodgers
Farm is on Marshland Fen in West Norfolk, the area immediately to the south of
The Wash bounded by the rivers Nene and Great Ouse. The Farm is a couple of miles to the west of the Great Ouse
on its course between Downham Market and the estuary just north of Kings Lynn.
Marshland Fen is on the eastern edge of the Fens which stretch from
Huntingdon in the south, to Peterborough in the west, and way up into
Lincolnshire in the north – the land of the big skies.
Bodger’s Farm
House
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Do you know what a bodger is? (answer on bed and
breakfast page)
A
brief history of Marshland Fen
The
Fen was the great common used for many centuries by the 'seven towns'; Emneth,
Walsoken, Walton, Walpole, Terrington, Tilney and Clenchwarton, as summer
grazing. In 1796 landowners in the seven towns successfully applied for an Act
to enclose the Fen - some 8,000 acres in all. Apart from updated land drainage
systems little has changed since then and the area is a mixture of rich
agricultural land and wetland habitat for wildlife. Visit
the Bed and
Breakfast page to read more about local places of interest and our
Fenland bird life
View westwards from Bodgers Farm
Bodgers
Farm is a delightfully quiet rural retreat but is within 20 minutes driving time
of the local towns of Downham Market, King's Lynn and Wisbech. Ely and
Peterborough are within 40 minutes.
For more
information about Downham Market please visit www.downhamchamber.co.uk
Downham
Market is served by an hourly fast train service (1½ hours) from Kings Cross,
London, with connections to/from all parts of the UK at Ely.
For train service information visit www.nationalrail.co.uk/stations/DOW.html
Stansted and Norwich airports are 1¼ hours driving time (same time by train
from Stansted Airport Station via Cambridge)
Visit
www.stanstedairport.com and www.norwichairport.co.uk
Fly your own plane? Marshland Airfield, a privately owned airstrip, is just 1
mile up the Drove. Landing, fuelling, etc by pre-arrangement only.
See ukga.com/airfield/marshland
Our
postal address is very misleading (thank you Royal Mail). We are actually 4
miles from St Johns Fen End, we are closer to Downham Market than Wisbech, and
we are in Norfolk, not Cambridgeshire!
Bodger's
Farm can be found 1 mile south of Rungays Bridge on Marshland Fen (Black Drove
is the extension of School Road, from Marshland St James). There is a link to a
map on the "Bed & Breakfast" page or click here. If you are using
our postcode in your SatNav it will tell you you've arrived when you are outside
our neighbours at Providence House and Farm - ignore this and continue for 1
more mile!
Postal address only: Howard and Kate Phillips, Bodger's Farm, Black
Drove, St John's Fen End, Wisbech, Cambridgeshire PE14 8JU
Tel: 01945 430880 (international +44 1945 430880),
Email:
info@bodgersfarmpottery.co.uk
