Fordham, East of England • England
A few miles north-east of Ely, out in the flat Cambridgeshire fens, sits Fordham — an East of England village in the CB postcode area. It's flat, rural and short on commercial accommodation — which is why crews with jobs across the Ely area, Newmarket or towards Cambridge end up needing a proper house. KrewBase takes whole serviced properties around Fordham with bills, Wi-Fi and parking sorted, all on one monthly invoice.
Fordham and the surrounding fen villages offer a spread of period farmhouses, brick cottages, post-war semis and some newer estates, all set in pancake-flat farmland within a short drive of Ely. For crews we favour the semis and detached houses with drives — somewhere a transit van fits without blocking the lane, enough bedrooms that nobody's sharing long-term, and a kitchen built for more than a couple of people eating at once. The period cottages photograph well but rarely survive contact with five sets of wet work gear.
Each property is checked in person before it's offered anywhere: parking against your real vehicles, two bathrooms for five-plus crews, and heating and hot water walked and tested properly, because a fen winter exposes a weak system within the first week. Pretty is nice; functional is what gets a crew through a three-month contract, and we shortlist accordingly without apology.
East Cambridgeshire's work is a familiar regional mix: agriculture and food processing across the fens, construction and housing development around Ely and Newmarket, and infrastructure, energy and maintenance jobs across the wider East of England. Crews working across the region often bed down in villages like Fordham when the towns are booked out or the site sits out in the middle of nowhere, fen-style, with nothing but fields between the gang and the nearest guest house.
A whole house keeps a gang together for months at a stretch — one address for payroll and deliveries, one fridge, kit stored securely indoors, and no weekly hunt for B&B rooms when the project runs long. For anything past a couple of nights, nothing else in this part of the county really competes. The office gets one predictable cost line each month, which makes quoting the job simpler too.
Fordham sits close to the A142, putting Ely around ten minutes away, Newmarket in about twenty and Cambridge in roughly half an hour. The A142 links through to the A10 and A11, so crews can reach sites across Cambridgeshire and into Suffolk without much fuss, and Ely station — ten minutes off — serves the rail line between Cambridge and Kings Lynn for anyone arriving by train.
Give us the site postcode and we'll shortlist by genuine drive time across the fen roads, not straight-line distance. If the job moves between sites, we can re-rank the options or relocate the crew mid-contract, and early starts or late finishes are no issue — in a whole house, nobody else's schedule gets in the way. Sites towards Newmarket, Soham or out on the A11 are all straightforward runs from here.
Your crew gets the entire house for the duration — every bedroom, the kitchen, the living space, no shared spaces and no other tenants. Bills for gas, electric, water, council tax and broadband stay in KrewBase's name, so nobody's chasing meters or arguing about the thermostat. Wi-Fi is speed-tested before check-in, parking is verified against the crew's vehicles, and five or more people means two bathrooms as standard.
Weekly cleans and fresh linen are included, and maintenance comes to us — one report, one fix, no waiting in for trades. The company gets one monthly invoice, paid by card with no booking fees and no minimum crew size or stay length, so short jobs and rolling contracts alike are handled the same straightforward way. Quotes are fixed for the agreed term, so there are no mid-contract surprises on the invoice.
Send us the requirement — town, dates, headcount, vehicles and any shift pattern we should know about. We come back within 2 hours with a shortlist from property we already hold, not a search we have just started. You pick, we confirm, the crew moves in, and we stay on it for the length of the job. One monthly invoice, card payment for limited companies, no booking fees.
Fordham is a small village with no commercial accommodation, so we source whole houses in Fordham and the neighbouring villages — Isleham, Soham and the Ely side — ranked by drive time to your site. Give us the postcode and we'll show you the honest options, even if the truthful answer is that the best house sits a few miles away.
Our target is two working hours from receiving the site location, headcount and dates. Fen village stock is limited, so a few days' notice genuinely helps — but we've placed crews around Fordham at short notice when the job demanded it, and we'll always tell you straight what's realistic in the timeframe.
Checked before you book, against the vehicles you list. We confirm the property's parking in person — if the crew arrives in two transits and a car, they all fit, on the drive and off the road. No offering a house with a single garage and hoping for the best when the gang turns up.
Yes. Gas, electric, water, council tax and broadband are all carried in KrewBase's name. The crew never touches a meter or a bill, your accounts team never chases a supplier, and everything rolls into one monthly invoice to your company — one payment, one line of paperwork, no surprises.
No problem — there's no minimum crew size or stay length. Small inspection and maintenance crews are common around the Ely area, and a short booking is priced just as fairly as a long one, with the same whole house, the same tested Wi-Fi and the same parking checks as any big gang booking.
The site location, how many people, the dates, and any must-haves — parking for multiple vans, ground-floor bedrooms, somewhere dry for kit storage. With that we shortlist suitable houses around Fordham and come back with confirmed options and pricing quickly, without a long email tennis match.
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Need beds in Fordham? Send us the dates, the headcount and the shift pattern. We come back within 2 hours with a shortlist from property we already hold.
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