Ramsey Heights is a village in Ramsey

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, part of the

Huntingdonshire Huntingdonshire (; abbreviated Hunts) is a local government district in Cambridgeshire, England, which was historically a county in its own right. It borders Peterborough to the north, Fenland to the north-east, East Cambridgeshire to the e ...

district of

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

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

Notable residents

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

References

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