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Great Whyte, Ramsey, Huntingdonshire

Ramsey, Huntingdonshire

Ramsey is a small market town in Huntingdonshire, standing in the fenland north of Huntingdon and St Ives. The High Street is a busy, narrow street of shops, but the town opens out in Great Whyte, a very broad street reaching from the High Street out toward the fen edge and which has become the principal street.

The town was the site of a wealthy abbey from Anglo-Saxon days until the Reformation, and the great manor house here is still known as "Ramsey Abbey", built on part of its estates. (Read more)