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Ramsey (Cambridgeshire)

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Ramsey

Small town in Cambridgeshire, England, 18 km/11 mi northeast of Huntingdon; population (2001) 8,050. It is situated on the edge of the Fens. The town owes its importance to the foundation of a Benedictine abbey here in 969 by Duke Ailwyn, ‘Alderman of all England’.

The remains of the abbey buildings include the 13th-century Lady Chapel (now part of the grammar school), projecting eastwards from the site of the north transept; part of a 15th-century gatehouse; and the 12th-century parish church, which was originally a guest-house or hospital attached to the monastery.
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