io8 Villages 



owing to the latter fact it has outstripped in size the other fen-line settle- 

 ments. 



South-eastern Cambridgeshire. Fig. 24 gives details of the country between 

 Cambridge town and the eastern County boundary. It covers an area of 

 170 square miles, and all the village sites and watercourses are inserted. 



Exning 



Newmeirket 



+ 



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Fig. 24. 



Villages to the east of Cambridge. 

 The figures in the area below the 50 ft. contour are spot heights above O.D. 



The relief is indicated by the 50 ft. and 300 ft. contours. At the time of 

 the setdement, this part of the County most probably included three zones 

 of vegetation. To the north-west, there was a marsh of reeds and rushes, 

 interspersed with patches of better drained land. The country between the 

 two contours was a dry area, with large open spaces of grass, dotted here 

 and there with hawthorn bush, and probably with some beech woods. 

 The 300 ft. contour line agrees very closely with the edge of the Boulder 



