Ramsey Heights is a village in

Ramsey Ramsey may refer to: Geography British Isles * Ramsey, Cambridgeshire, a small market town in England * Ramsey, Essex, a village near Harwich, England ** Ramsey and Parkeston, a civil parish formerly called just "Ramsey" * Ramsey, Isle of Man, t ...

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, part of the

Huntingdonshire Huntingdonshire (; abbreviated Hunts) is a non-metropolitan district of Cambridgeshire and a historic county of England. The district council is based in Huntingdon. Other towns include St Ives, Godmanchester, St Neots and Ramsey. The popul ...

district of

Cambridgeshire Cambridgeshire (abbreviated Cambs.) is a Counties of England, county in the East of England, bordering Lincolnshire to the north, Norfolk to the north-east, Suffolk to the east, Essex and Hertfordshire to the south, and Bedfordshire and North ...

, England. The Ramsey Heights nature reserve is located on the edge of the village and the larger

Woodwalton Fen Woodwalton Fen is a 209 hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in the parish of Woodwalton, west of Ramsey in Huntingdonshire, Cambridgeshire, England. It is a Ramsar wetland site of international importance, a National Nature Re ...

National Nature Reserve is to the southwest of the village. Despite its name, the village is low-lying and straddles the zero-metre contour line in the flat fenland.

History

In October 2015, a dig to recover a WW2

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fighter plane was carried at

Holme Fen Holme Fen is a biological Site of Special Scientific Interest near Holme in Cambridgeshire. It is also a National Nature Reserve and a Nature Conservation Review site, Grade I. It is part of the Great Fen project, which aims to create a 3,700 w ...

. The dig's project director was Stephen Macauley of

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East (OAE). A film of the dig was shown at the

Great Fen The Great Fen is a habitat restoration project being undertaken on The Fens in the county of Cambridgeshire in England. It is one of the largest restoration projects in the country, and aims to create a 3,700 hectare wetland and aims to connect ...

's Countryside Centre, Ramsey Heights on 27 September 2019.

Notable residents

Sybil Marshall Sybil Marshall (26 November 1913 – 29 August 2005) was a British writer, novelist, social historian, broadcaster, folklorist and educationalist. Biography Born as Sybil Mary Edwards in Ramsey Heights, the daughter of a smallholding, smallholde ...

(1913–2005), writer, academic and social historian was born in the village.

References

Villages in Cambridgeshire Ramsey, Cambridgeshire {{Cambridgeshire-geo-stub