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Stretham sits on a small rise of greensand above the Cambridgeshire Fens, located about four miles south of the cathedral city of Ely. It is a village defined by its relationship with the land and the water; the River Great Ouse flows nearby and the surrounding landscape is a vast expanse of high-grade arable farmland. At the heart of the village stands a rare survivors' piece of Victorian engineering: the Stretham Old Engine, a steam-powered land drainage pump that once kept the surrounding fens from flooding. Most of the village’s daily life centres on the primary school, the parish church of St James, and the local pub, the Red Lion. Its position at the junction of the A10 and A1123 makes it a practical base for reaching Cambridge, which is roughly twelve miles away, yet the village retains a quiet, self-contained character, surrounded by the distinctive, wide horizons and big skies of the East Anglian Fenlands.