St. Ives in Cambridgeshire

The ancient town of Slepe in the old county of Huntingdonshire

Welcome to St. Ives, Cambridgeshire

and welcome to over 4,800 visitors to this site each week

 

 

The Chapel Bridge, St. Ives (D1)

Formerly known as Slepe, in the old county of Huntingdonshire, this ancient riverside market town is now named after the Persian Bishop, St. Ivo. St. Ives, now within Cambridgeshire, stands on the River Great Ouse and is world famous for the Chapel on the Bridge

 The famous Chapel on the Bridge in St. Ives, Cambridgeshire

Market Hill, St. Ives (D2)
An image of the Market Place, St Ives

 

For nearly 1,000 years the wide centre of St. Ives, now known as Market Hill, has hosted some of the largest public markets in England. Many years ago these markets included livestock and for a time was one of the biggest of its kind. Today the Street Markets still fill the town centre on Mondays and Fridays. On every Bank Holiday Monday however the market swells to fill almost the entire town with traders coming from all over the country to sell their wares to the thousands of people who attend under the watchful eye of Oliver Cromwell, one time resident of the town, whose statue stands in the centre of the Market Place.

St Ives is one of the five principle towns in the District of Huntingdonshire, the others being Huntingdon, St Neots (the largest town in the County of Cambridgeshire), the Roman town of Godmanchester, and Ramsey site of the former Abbey. We are also constructing our first Huntingdonshire Parish website for Holywell-cum-Needingworth

THINK ST. IVES!

Use your local shops or you'll loose your local shops!

Now, more than ever, YOU need to support your local shops and where possible buy locally made or locally grown products. If you don't you'll loose the opportunity for a very long time and the town will loose lots of jobs.

If you manage a local business or other local organisation, then see what we can do to help:

Commercial site membership from £25 per year

Allows you to manage on-line your business and contact details, trading times, pictures, news, events and some of your products...

Non-profit organisations - membership is FREE

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St Ives Fair Charter 900th Anniversary in 2010

276 days to go until our market is 900 years old

Start thinking about what you are going to do to help the town celebrate and

keep an eye on this space as the countdown continues...

Follow this link for more information about the St Ives Street Markets and Fairs

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Are you running an event in St Ives in 2009?

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Forthcoming Events in or around St Ives

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St Ives Farmers Market

Event venue - St Ives Street Market

From 04/07/2009 08:00 until 04/07/2009 13:00

More info about the St Ives Farmers Market...

Summer Fete

Event venue - Parish Hall @ All Saints (CofE)

From 04/07/2009 11:00 until 04/07/2009 16:00

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Dunstable Town Band

Event venue - The Waits

From 05/07/2009 14:30 until 05/07/2009 16:30

More info about the Dunstable Town Band...

Riverside Music Concert Refreshments

Event venue - Methodist Church

From 05/07/2009 14:30 until 05/07/2009 16:30

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More forthcoming events in St Ives
and pictures of past ones...

 

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This site is listed in the British Towns and Villages Encyclopaedia of Great Britain and we can be found in the entry for St Ives

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