page_title: Parson Drove
section_title: Landmarks
hierarchical_section_title: Parson Drove / Landmarks
context_page_description: Parson Drove is a fen village in Cambridgeshire, England. A linear settlement, it is approximately 7 miles west of Wisbech, the nearest town. The village is named after the central thoroughfare along which the village developed, a green drove, much wider than the current metalled road. The population at the 2001 Census was 1,030. The population is included in the civil parish of Wisbech St Mary.
  Other nearby towns include Peterborough, 19 miles to the west, and King's Lynn, 21 miles to the east.
context_section_description: Parson Drove has buildings dating from the 16th century, ten of which are Grade II listed. The village has three public houses, including The Swan Inn, in which Pepys stayed in the 17th century.
  The village churches are The Emmanuel Church (also called the "New Church") which dates from 1873 and contains chandeliers originally from St Paul's Cathedral, and St John the Baptist (also called the "Old Church") which dates from the 12th century, and includes additions and renovations from the 14th, 15th, and 17th centuries; it is Grade II* listed, and under the care of the Churches Conservation Trust.
  The Cage was built in 1829 as a village lock-up for local criminals and stray livestock, and housed the village fire pump for nearly 100 years.
  The last working temporary woad mill in Britain was in Parson Drove. It stood opposite St John the Baptist church, and closed in 1910. It was pulled down in 1914 and the last permanent woad mills at Algarkirk(1927) and Skirbeck(1932). A model of the woad mill is in Wisbech & Fenland museum.
caption: Woad mill, Parson Drove by James Doyle Penrose (1906)
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