Manea is a village

Village

A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet with the population ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand , Though often located in rural areas, the term urban village is also applied to certain urban neighbourhoods, such as the West Village in Manhattan, New...

 in the District of Fenland

Fenland

Fenland is a local government district in Cambridgeshire, England. Its council is based in March, and covers the neighbouring market towns of Chatteris, Whittlesey, and Wisbech, often called the "capital of the fens"...

, Cambridgeshire

Cambridgeshire

Cambridgeshire is a county in England, bordering Lincolnshire to the north, Norfolk to the northeast, Suffolk to the east, Essex and Hertfordshire to the south, and Bedfordshire and Northamptonshire to the west...

, England

England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

. It is an expanding village in the Cambridgeshire Fens

The Fens

The Fens, also known as the , are a naturally marshy region in eastern England. Most of the fens were drained several centuries ago, resulting in a flat, damp, low-lying agricultural region....

. Notable features are Manea railway station

Manea railway station

Manea railway station, on the line between Peterborough and Ely, serves the village of Manea in Cambridgeshire, England. It was proposed for closure under the Beeching report of 1963 but was repreived due to "the acute social hardship this would cause"....

 and RSPB Welches Dam nature reserve on the Ouse Washes

Ouse Washes

The Ouse Washes are an area in the Fens of Cambridgeshire and Norfolk, England. They cover the area between two diversion channels of the River Great Ouse: the Old Bedford River and the New Bedford River .-History:...

. The area has been inhabited for centuries, and Stonea Camp

Stonea Camp

Stonea Camp is an Iron Age hill fort located near March in the Cambridgeshire Fens. Situated on a gravel bank just above sea-level, it is the lowest hill fort in Britain. Around 500 BC, when fortification is thought to have begun at this site, this "hill" would have provided a significant area of...

, an Iron Age hill fort is located in the vicinity of the village.

Manea was once a hamlet in the parish of Coveney

Coveney, Cambridgeshire

Coveney is a village north of Cambridge in Cambridgeshire. Several bronze axes have been found here, shields and a few swords, all dating from the late Bronze Age. Coveney is on a small 'island' rising to above sea level, some west of Ely city as the crow flies, but nearly twice that distance by...

, and in the seventeenth century Manea was one of the sites where Charles I

Charles I of England

Charles I was King of England, King of Scotland, and King of Ireland from 27 March 1625 until his execution in 1649. Charles engaged in a struggle for power with the Parliament of England, attempting to obtain royal revenue whilst Parliament sought to curb his Royal prerogative which Charles...

was planning to build a new town, to be called Charlemont. The village's parish church is dedicated to St. Nicholas and was built in 1875 to replace an earlier building dating from 1791. The village has a brass band, Manea Silver Band, which meets for practices in Manea Methodist Chapel.

External links

• Manea Parish Council
• Manea Connect, village website run by a group of volunteers whose aim it is to inform villagers about Manea events, groups and clubs and contact details for other services that are available in and around Manea, such as transport links/timetables, the Doctors' Surgery hours, contact details for the local schools and emergency services.

Manea Connect also has editorial on Manea villages' history written by villagers, gardening and wildlife stories.