Cratendune
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Cratendune is the name of the lost village reported in the Liber Eliensis, the history of the abbey, then Ely Cathedral, compiled towards the end of the 12th century, as the 500th anniversary of the t
Reconstruction of an Anglo-Saxon village in West Stow
Little Thetford
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Little Thetford is a small village in the civil parish of Thetford, 3 miles south of Ely in Cambridgeshire, England, about 76 miles by road from London. The village is built on a boulder clay island s
Cratendune
…here. This makes the West Fen Road site an unlikely Cratendune location. During World War II whilst constructing an aerodrome at Witchford, near Little Thetford, a cemetery was discovered. Major Gordon Fowler reports witnessing a bulldozer leveling off ground and in so doing was crushing skeletons. The urgent…
Little Thetford looking north-east. Ely is north—top left. The A10 road at Thetford corner is west and the River Great Ouse is east. The south-west block of housing is where the Iron Age settlement and Romano-British tile kiln were found.
Chain ferry at Little Thetford c. 1905. Harrimere windmill is seen on the Barway side of the River Great Ouse.
19th-century Baptist chapel
Little Thetford Main Street, 1906. Three Horse Shoes public house on left. Thatched building, c. 13th century, on right which burned down on 6 November 1930.