Friday Bridge

13°CSunny

• Today: 18° / 11° · 8% rain
• Tomorrow: 20° / 10° · Overcast

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 06:21Sunset 19:31

13h 9m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

2US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: carbon monoxide

Source: WAQI · Haringey Roadside, United Kingdom

9 reported · July 2026▼ 57% YoY

• Violence & sexual offences5
• Other theft2
• Criminal damage & arson1
• Other crime1

Neighbourhood team: Wisbech · Cambridgeshire

Source: data.police.uk (within ~1 mile)

143 reported road collisions (2024)

38 killed or seriously injured · 197 casualties · 14 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

14 food businesses within 2 miles

• 11 rated 4–5 ★ (10 top)
• 0 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

• 8 bus stops within ~½ mile

Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

£223,168 average▲ 1.9% YoY

Across Fenland · to 2026-06

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

£840 average monthly rent▲ 3.7% YoY

• 1 bed £625
• 2 bed £804
• 3 bed £976

Source: ONS Price Index of Private Rents · to 2026-07

7.4× house price to earnings

A typical home costs 7.4 times median annual pay (7.2× for cheaper homes vs lower pay).

Source: ONS house price to workplace earnings ratio · 2025

• Cheapest petrol: 164.9p · BP (9.4 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 187.9p · BP (9.4 km)

3 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

7 charging locations within ~8 km

• 1 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
• Fastest nearby: 150 kW
• Nearest: Morrisons (3.2 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

• Swimming pools1
• Sports pitches3
• Playgrounds2

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

102,459 residents in Fenland · 188/km²

• Under 16: 17%
• 16–64: 60%
• 65+: 23%

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

Among the most deprived areas in England

Ranked 51 of 317 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

7% of neighbourhoods are in England’s most deprived 10%

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2019

£2,538 a year · Band D, 2026-27

Most homes here are Band A (36% of 48,110)

Source: VOA council-tax stock · MHCLG band levels 2026-27

47 schools · 13,993 pupils

31 primary · 4 secondary · 12 other

Ofsted: 23 of 25 graded schools rated Good or Outstanding (92%)

38inspected under Ofsted’s 2024+ framework (graded by area, no single overall grade)

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · Fenland

595 CQC-registered services

• Care homes141
• GP practices108
• Dentists128
• Homecare agencies137
• Hospitals & hospices20

CQC ratings: 90% of rated services Good or Outstanding · 1 Inadequate

Source: Care Quality Commission · Cambridgeshire

• Not in the Green Belt
• 7 listed buildings within ~1.5 km

Source: planning.data.gov.uk (England)

159 applications decided

86.8% granted · 138 granted, 21 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q1

Steve Barclay

Conservative

North East Cambridgeshire

Source: UK Parliament

Conservative majority

• Con 35
• LD 2
• Oth 6

Source: Open Council Data UK (CC BY-SA)

• Schools4
• Restaurants & cafés1

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

4,335 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2025)

1 jobs advertised · £30,950 avg

e.g. Senior Support Worker

Source: Adzuna

£688 median full-time weekly pay

3.9% of residents aged 16–64 claim unemployment-related benefits

£22,333 disposable income per head (2024)

Source: ONS / Nomis (claimant count · ASHE) · ONS regional GDHI

46% of homes rated EPC C or above

Most common band: D · 53,212 certificates

10.4% of households were in fuel poverty (2023)

Source: MHCLG EPC statistics · DESNZ sub-regional fuel poverty

91% low-carbon electricity

Wind 65% · Nuclear 16% · Biomass 10% · Gas 9%

47 gCO₂/kWh · low intensity

Latest estimate for East England · National Grid ESO

Life expectancy: 82.8 yrs women · 79.8 yrs men

68% of adults overweight or obese

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2025

• Life satisfaction7.2
• Feeling worthwhile7.7
• Happiness yesterday7.6
• Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)3.4

Average rating out of 10 · ONS personal well-being 2022-23

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in North East Cambridgeshire:

• Ban anyone convicted of terrorism offences from standing for public office425 local signatures · 205,058 nationwide
• Make a public animal abuser register & automatically ban ownership409 local signatures · 242,705 nationwide
• Remove sentence reductions for guilty pleas in controlling and coercive cases337 local signatures · 104,741 nationwide
• Review the evidence and fund the addition of SMA to the Newborn Screening Test300 local signatures · 151,287 nationwide
• Require NHS to offer routine third trimester pregnancy ultrasound scan288 local signatures · 10,387 nationwide

Source: petition.parliament.uk · as of 2026-08-06

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  Friday Bridge, Cambridgeshire · 0.2 km

  Friday Bridge is a village in the civil parish of Elm, in the Fenland district of Cambridgeshire, England. It is 3 miles south of the town of Wisbech. In 2021 it had a population of 1412.

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  Wisbech and March line · 1.3 km

  The Wisbech and March line is a disused railway line between March and Wisbech in Cambridgeshire, England. A number of proposals are currently being investigated relating to the possible restoration of passenger servi…

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  Elm, Cambridgeshire · 1.4 km

  Elm is a village and civil parish in the Fenland District of Cambridgeshire, England. In Domesday, it is called Helle.

• Begdale · 2.0 km

  Begdale is a hamlet between Wisbech, Elm and Friday Bridge in Cambridgeshire, England.

• Collett's Bridge · 2.3 km

  Collett's Bridge is a hamlet within the civil parish of Elm, in the Isle of Ely, in the Fenland district, in the county of Cambridgeshire, England. It is situated on the eastern boundary of the district 1.5 miles east…

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  Wisbech and Upwell Tramway · 2.9 km

  The Wisbech and Upwell Tramway was a rural standard gauge tramway in East Anglia. It was built by the Great Eastern Railway between Wisbech, Isle of Ely, Cambridgeshire, and Upwell, now in Norfolk, to carry agricultur…

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