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Years ago this village to the north of Huntingdon had a station on the nearby main railway line to King's Cross but now it only sees the expresses pass by. It is a pleasant place in a moderately wooded stretch of country, and of architectural note are Abbots Ripton Hall, and an earlier moated house that may have been the manor house. The Old Rectory is another charming old building.
The flint and cobbled church is very interesting (note its tower) has a 700 year old tomb, 15th century oak screen with a tracery some 100 years older. The pulpit and the font cover are both Jacobean.
Nearby is Wennington, a pretty hamlet of thatched cottages.
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- Landmark