The domain name Mareham-le-fen.co.uk was registered in 1999 when it was discovered that a large commercial firm was registering village names all over the country, by the end of that year this site was launched, as at December 2006 there has been in excess of 140,000 different visitors from all over the world making a total of over 600,000 visits
Logs show that most of these visitors are from America followed by Uk and European union.
between them these represent about 75% of visitors but surprisingly during 2006 among the visitors there has been 833 visitors from the United Arab Emirates,156 from South Korea,95 from Turkey,51 from Russia and 39 from Chile as well as visits from Australia Canada and other country's normally associated with the UK
in some cases people have contacted me trying to find relatives or ancestors ,or they have some link with the village i.e. An American use to lodge with A Mrs Spiking's main Road Mareham-le-fen A south African had an Aunt, Mrs Grundy who lived at woodman's cottage Field side in the 1950-60, the people who lived in Mariners cottage main road now live in America etc.
All aspects of this site is free to local people to advertise their service/events etc
or to show their photographs to the world,people do look,
If you have any suggestions or comments email me at peter@mareham-le-fen.co.uk