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Contact Us
If you have any questions or queries you would like to ask please contact us on the details given on this page.
Also please take the time to read a little on the history of St Ives where we are situated.
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01480 384270
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| Email |
krushaun@btinternet.com
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| Contact Address |
Kru Yai Shaun Boland,
41 Nene Way,
St Ives,
Cambridgeshire,
PE27 3FJ
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| Academy Address |
Chao Phraya Muay Thai Academy,
Burleigh Hill Community Centre,
St Ives,
Cambridgeshire,
PE27 3ER
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If you need directions to the Chao Phraya Muay Thai academy, please click on each of the four maps below to open a larger version.
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| A History of St Ives... The Ancient Settlement |
People have probably lived in the place we now call St Ives for as long as there have been people in England.
The Stone Age hunters came to England approximately 300,000 years ago.
There were settlements in the area during the bronze and Iron Ages and the Romans built a villa here.
However, the history of the present town really begins in Saxon Times.
They settled in the area after the collapse of the Roman Empire, probably around the year 500 AD.
They founded a small settlement called Slepe, which is an old Saxon word meaning 'Muddy'.
No Evidence of this settlement has been found and the first definitive date in the history of St Ives is 986.
In that year, the local Saxon landowner, Mannesonne, died, and left his property to Ramsey Abbey, a Benedictine monastery about ten miles away.
Slepe, which later became St Ives, remained Ramsey Abbey property for the next 100 years or so.
A Saxon peasant discovered a stone coffin containing human remains.
The local smith then had a series of visions in which a figure appeared claiming to be Bishop Ivo.
Abbot Eadnoth of Ramsey was convinced that the stone coffin contained the remains of the Persian Bishop St Ivo, who was said to have visited in the 6th century.
He renamed the village Slepe as St Ives.
He immediately drew up plans for a shrine to be built on the spot where the stone coffin had been found.
The priory was built around 1017AD and a fragment of stone wall, which was part of a barn in the priory, still stands in Priory road St Ives.
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| A Timeline of St Ives |
| 986 |
The settlement of Slepe is left to Ramsey Abbey by the Mannesonne family. |
| 1086 |
Slepe is recorded in the Doomsday book. There are around 60 households, and is valued at £16. |
| 1110 |
King Henry I grants Ramsey Abbey a charter allowing an annual fair to be held at St Ives. The fair is to start on the Wednesday after Easter and lasts for a week. For the next 400 years, the fairs were held, being officially abandoned in 1511. They Put St Ives on the map and were considered one of the premiere events held in England each year. |
| 1426 |
It is thought that the new stone bridge across the river Great Ouse was completed in this year. It replaced the old wooden bridge, which dated from approximately 1100. |
| 1544 |
Henry VIII gives the priory buildings to one of his courtiers Thomas Audley. |
| 1631 |
Oliver Cromwell moves to St Ives and farms there for 5 years. |
| 1645 |
King Charles leads the cavalry down the Great North Road occupying Huntingdon and Godmanchester. Parliament ordered all bridges across the river Great Ouse, including the one at St Ives to be broken. |
| 1774 |
John Wesley visits St Ives and reports that he preached to a Very well dressed and well-behaved congregation. |
| 1801 |
The first census records the population of St Ives as 2099, living in 478 houses. |
| 1847 |
St Ives railway and the lines to Cambridge and Huntingdon are opened. |
| 1864 |
The Free Church is built on the Market Hill. |
| 1874 |
The town achieves the status of a Borough. |
| 1901 |
The Cromwell statue is unveiled on the Market Hill. |
| 1902 |
The Roman Catholic church in Cambridge is dismantled and re-erected in Needingworth Road, St Ives. |
| 1912 |
There are severe floods with the water levels rising to that never recorded before. |
| 1931 |
Herbert Norris bequeaths his collection to St Ives together with the money to build the Norris museum, which is now the home of many historical records of St Ives. |
| 1947 |
Once again there are severe floods with the water level rising even above the levels of the 1912 floods. |
| 1951 |
The census records the population of St Ives to be 3078. |
| 1954 |
The St Ivo school is opened. |
| 1970 |
The railway line to Cambridge is closed. The line to Huntingdon had been closed 11 years earlier in 1959. |
| 1980 |
The St Ives bypass is opened, taking traffic away from the town centre and relieving the strain on the old bridge. |
| 1996 |
Heavy rain in December brought about flooding of the Ouse flood plains. This was immediately followed by a protracted cold spell in late December through early January 1997 which caused the flooded plains to freeze solid. Once again the traditional Fen speed skating championships were held on Bury Fen near Bluntisham, just a few miles east of St Ives. |
| 1998 |
In April severe flooding occurred once again. Water levels rose above the 1912 levels, but did not quite reach the 1947 record. |
| Sudore Non Supore – By Labour Not Sleep |
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As I was going to St Ives
I met a man with seven wives.
Each wife had seven sacks,
Each sack had seven cats.
Each cat had seven kits;
Kits, cats, sacks and wives –
How many were going to St Ives?
Anonymous
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