St. Ives in Cambridgeshire

The ancient town of Slepe in the old county of Huntingdonshire

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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 lose 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:

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St Ives Fair Charter 900th Anniversary in 2010

134 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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News item from Dennis Mott & Co

HMRC - a tax scam

There is, apparently, no let up in the number of scam e-mails purporting to be from HMRC saying that a tax refund is due. The e-mail asks for bank account or credit card details.

HMRC''s advice includes:
* check www.hmrc.gov.uk/security/examples.htm to see if the email is listed;
* avoid clicking on websites, links contained in suspicious emails or open attachments;
* follow advice from www.getsafeonline.co.uk

If in doubt, please check it out with HMRC at: www.hmrc.gov.uk/security/fraud-attempts.htm.
Is a refund due? – check with your accountant. If you haven’t got one, get one.

News Date: 17/11/2009 12:53

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Forthcoming Events in or around St Ives

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Wine Tasting Evening

Event venue - Slepe Hall Hotel

From 26/11/2009 19:30 until 26/11/2009 21:30

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Auction Sale

Event venue - Hyperion Antiques

From 28/11/2009 10:30 until 28/11/2009 15:00

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St Paul - Mendelssohn

Event venue - Free Church (United Reformed)

From 28/11/2009 19:30 until 28/11/2009 21:30

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Auction Sale

Event venue - Hyperion Antiques

From 12/12/2009 10:30 until 12/12/2009 15:00

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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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