About Us

Witchford is a thriving village about two miles west of Ely in Cambridgeshire. It has been around for a long time - there is an entry in the Domesday book, which you can read in Ely Museum.

The community has a wide range of facilities - primary & secondary schools, churches, garage, shops and a restaurant. Many new houses have been built in recent years and the population has risen to well over 2000.

Witchford Online was originally set up by the Parish Council in the nineties. A team of people was formed to create and maintain www.witchford.org.uk but, sadly, that team dispersed at the end of 2001.

This new site has attempted to take up where the old one left off and provide a source of community information for the people of the village. We are always looking for help to gather new content, writing web pages and so on. If you are interested in joining in please contact us at the email address shown at the top of this page.

See the Community - Open Spaces Group page for more details on walking routes around Witchford.

The following pictures were kindly sent in by Stuart Braybrooke of Sutton Road. They were taken from a paramotor in March 2005. If you don’t know what a paramotor is, you’d better check out Stuart’s website at www.stuartbraybrooke.co.uk.


Main Street	Sutton Road	Sutton Road
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RAF Witchford museum

During WWII there was a RAF bomber base on the outskirts of Witchford, at what is now Lancaster Way Business Park. The small museum is well worth a visit. Follow the external links below for further details of the museum and one of the squadrons losses during WWII:

Many years ago a young man by the name of W.T. Maskell produced a couple of books about Witchford:

Witchford and its everyday life

Witchford in photos and drawings from 1852

The loss of Lancaster HK559