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Welcome to the Walpole Cross Keys Village site. Cross Keys is a small community situated where Norfolk borders with both Lincolnshire and Cambridgeshire.
The name comes from Pool by the Wall and it was originally a hamlet on the eastern side of the marsh that had to be crossed to get to Long Sutton in Lincolnshire - the alternative was a thirty mile round trip over the bridge at Wisbech. This situation continued until the River Nene was canalised and the new swing bridge (Cross Keys Bridge) created along with the settlement of Sutton Bridge
Generally thought to be the place from which King John’s jewels crossed the Wash (and were lost) it is a small agricultural community that was served for almost one hundred years by the M&GN (Midland and Great Northern or Muddle and Get Nowhere) Railway.
See the history page for more details of the background of the village - including old photographs of the village.
At the start of the 20th century the village benefitted from the generosity of Lady Jephson who provided a village hall - a newly re-furbished building stands on the same site today.
Cross Keys has an active Parish Council intent on improving the look of the village and recently commissioned a Parish Plan (Blueprint for the Future) which is published on this site. The Council’s latest addition to the village is the Eva Kemp/Station Garden.
The village has a thriving Primary School with a Ladybirds pre-school on the same site.
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