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Picture of View across Green to houses, c.1900 Reach
View across Green to houses, c.1900
Picture of High Street, Reach, c.1910s Reach
High Street, Reach, c.1910s
Picture of View across Green to Church, c.1920 Reach
View across Green to Church, c.1920
Picture of Reach Fair, c.1933 Reach
Reach Fair, c.1933

Information about Reach circa 1900

REACH (Reche, or Ruin Reach) is a hamlet in the parishes of Swaffham Prior and Burwell, 1 mile north from Swaffham Prior station on the Cambridge and Mildenhall branch of the Great Eastern railway, 6 miles north-west from Newmarket, partly in Staploe and partly in Staine hundreds and in the Eastern division of the county, Bottisham petty sessional division , union and county court district of Newmarket. The school church of the Holy Trinity, erected in 1860, on the site of a ruined chapel, of which the east end still remains, is a building of stone in the Perpendicular style, consisting of chancel nave and a turret over the western entrance containing one bell : the church is served from Burwell, and has 150 sittings. Here is a Congregational chapel.

National School (mixed), erected in 1860, for 90 children; average attendance, 54.