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NOTE: Numbers in brackets [ ] are links to footnotes (click number to jump to footnotes).

Rabbit Hill	41	447.106	Leverington
Radio Telescope [39-54-] & Royal Astronomy Observatory [39-53-]			see Lords Bridge
Ramsey Road	39		Benwick
Rampton	46, 47
Rand's Wood	65	620.505	= Yenhall Wood, West Wratting
Ranson Moor	39	37-92- etc	Doddington
Raynor's Grove	44	466.486	Whittlesford
Reach	56	56-66-
Reach sect. Devil's Ditch	56	56-65-	Reach
Reche/Reach Lode	56		Reach & Swaffham Prior
Red Cross Turnpike	45	470.550	Cambridge
Reservoir at Hinton	45	483.555	Cambridge
Richmond Field	41	41-11-	Gorefield, Leverington
Richmond Hall	41	41-11-	(former Manor House) Leverington
Rifle Butts (old), Mill Rd.	45		as below
Rifle Range [135]	45	475.586	Cambridge
Rimney Bank [136]	58	c.565.839	betwn Ely & Prickwillow
Ring's End	30	39-02-	Elm
Rive Moor	?47		Sutton
Rivey Wood	54	565.478	Linton
Robin Knight's Lane	?38		Chatteris
Roman Bank	41	44-12- etc.	Newton & St Giles =
		44-13-	‘Sea Bank' and A.1101
Roman Bank [137]	40	468.085	Wisbech Vc 28
Roman Road (Gogs)	45	49-54-
Roman Road	55, 54
Roman Villa sect. Devil's Ditch	56		see Villa sect.
Romsey Tip [138]	45	482.574	Cherry Hinton
Rope Walk [139]	41	463.101	Wisbech
Roper's Field Bank [140]	?41		Wisbech
Roslyn/Rossal Pits [141]	58		see Roswell
Roswell Pits	58	547.805	Ely
Round Course	56 & 66		Swaffham Prior & Dullingham
Rowley Hill	44	42-49-	Harston
Royston Church	34	357.406	Herts, Vc 20
Ruddery spring	24	280.402	Guilden Morden
Rushbeach [Bushbeach]	48		Chatteris
Rushbeach-Ditch of 16 Foot	48	c.42-87-	Chatteris
Rushbech Farm	48	430.875	Chatteris
Rushland	?48		? Chatteris
The Rush Way	48	44-81-	Witcham/Mepal bdy
Russell, Sir Francis' house	66		Chippenham

FOOTNOTES

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135 Coldham’s Common, 2nd ed. OS 6" map.

136 Fens between Ely and Prickwillow, in a Creek over against the tiled House on Rimney Bank. Relhan,1820. There is an inlet from the R. Cam to Brick Hill: ? was this where the Tiled House stood. See also Tiled House Farm, Streatham.

137 A Roman Embankment runs N from New Common Bridge along Vc boundary by pond east of Bridge; S of Bridge = A.1101, on E side of Canal = ‘Old River’ and ‘Elm River’. Wisbech Town Watch Book, 1794.

138 This is the Norman Cement Works as shown on the 1927 ed. of OS 6" sheet XLVII.N.E. It is not strictly speaking in Romsey Town; now the Cherry Hinton Landfill Site. Was also called Cherry Hinton cement works.

139 Marked as running north from E side of Bowling Green Inn. (There are also Rope Walks shown along Canal side in Marsh Field.) Wood’s Map of Wisbech, 1830. Also running E-W between Money Bank and Canal in New Walsoken, 1903 6" OS map.)

140 “Roper’s Field Bank by ye Riverside” [Peter Thompson Roper owned The Mill on Lynn Rd in 1778. Inns & Taverns, p.6.]

141 Chambers, J. 1893, CUBG.

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