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Higney Grange, OS 1886

Higney Grange, Ramsey

History of Higney Grange

In 1134 Aubrey de Scellea gave her manor of Wood Walton with the island called Higney to Ramsey Abbey. At this time there was a hermitage on the island where a hermit called Edwin lived with a servant. He is mentioned in the life of Christina of Markyate, foundress of Warden priory, whom he helped to escape from her parents in Huntingdon after a forced marriage.

The island was seized by Aubrey’s sons during Stephen’s revolt but was recovered by Ramsey in 1219.

At the Dissolution it passed to the Cromwell family. Nothing of the monastic buildings survives.

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