EYE, CAMBRIDGESHIRE

'Eye' is a village in the unitary authority area of Peterborough and the geographical county of Cambridgeshire in England, south of Crowland and Eye Green. It was formerly in the Soke of Peterborough.
Its name came from Anglo-Saxon ''īeg'' = "island", likeliest here "dry ground in marsh".

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History

History

There has been a church there since at least 1543. The present church, St. Matthew's, was built in 1846. Eye Cornmill is a windmill with eight sails. Eye is separated from its sister village of Eye Green by the A47 trunk road. Eye was previously one of the brickmaking villages of the Peterborough area, along with Fletton, Yaxley and Stanground. There was a brickpit (a quarry for clay for making bricks from), which for a while was used by a small commercial diving school, which is now closed and demolished; the brickpit is now a nature reserve.
Eye is a large village by local standards, and contains many amenities now lost in rural England. These include a post office, three pubs, a kebab shop, a fish and chip shop, a butchers, a bakery and a tanning salon. There is a Londis store which stocks a small range of fresh fruit and vegetables.
The three-mile £7m A47 Eye bypass opened in October 1991.