Shown on a map of 1656 as Horsecroft Fenne, situated West of the Soham water mill. Angle Common like the other commons in Soham was in 1943 requisitioned by the War Agricultural Executive Committee in order to obtain higher food production, and Angle Common to the east of the railway line was ploughed up, then after the war, the Minister of Agriculture made proposals for the acquisition of all Soham's Poor's Commons but owing to local opposition all but that referring to the Shade Common were dropped. The W.A.E.C. wartime contract provided that the commons should be returned to the commoners in the same state as when they were requisitioned. Consequently all common lands in Soham except the Shade Common were drilled with grass and de-requisitioned.

   
Cottages on Angle Common next to The Soham Lode, up river from the Mill

   
Back Pen, on the opposite side of The Lode from the Mill.

 
Front Pen, in font of the above three photos.