A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely - 9780197227732

A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of ElyVolume IX: Chesterton, Northstowe, and Papworth Hundreds (North and North-West of Cambridge)\nAuthor(s): A. P. M. Wright, C P Lewis\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Oxford University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Early English Text Society\nISBN-13: 9780197227732, 978-0197227732\nSynopsis\nTHE volume relates to the part of the county lying north-west of Cambridge and includes the histories of twenty-seven parishes forming the hundreds of Chesterton, Northstowe, and Papworth. The area is bounded on the south by the road to St. Neots, on the east by the river Cam, and on the north by the Great Ouse or Old West River; it falls into two distinct physical landscapes, the land in the south sloping gently from a ridge and that in the north formingan extension of the fenlands of the Isle of Ely. Two distinct settlement patterns reflect the geographical division. The villages on the higher ground were mainly devoted to arable farming. Som.