The Wilbrahams

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Wheat field by Great Wilbraham

The Wilbrahams is an informal collective name for the two neighbouring Cambridgeshire villages of:

The Wilbrahams are on the edge of the fenland, a mile apart from one another, joined by the local road known as "the Lanes". They are both named from Princess Wilburh, or Wilburga, apparently a Mercian princess, said locally to have been King Penda's daughter and mentioned in some later chronicles but of whom nothing reliable is known, but that she left here name on these East Anglian villages, known in Old English as Wilburgaham; "Wilburh's home".

The hamlet of Six Mile Bottom belongs to the parish of Little Wilbraham, though lying apart from both.