Witcham

The village hosts the World Pea Shooting Championships on the second Saturday in July every year and has staged the competition annually since 1971.Witcham is built around a cross-roads in the centre of the village with each of the four roads having housing on each side for 50-200m.The name of the village derives from "Wycham", meaning "place of the wych elms", after the trees that used to grow there in significant numbers.[3] Historically, Witcham Parish had several detached portions in the outlying Fens.By 1896, boundary changes had reduced these detached portions to one, separated from the main by a small parish called Witcham Gravel.
The Witcham Gravel helmet in the British Museum
Commemoration Plate for the closure of Witcham School
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