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Places to stay in Earith
Earith is a village in the Fens of Cambridgeshire, England, south of Chatteris and east of Huntingdon. At Earith, two artificial diversion channels of the River Great Ouse, the Old Bedford River and the New Bedford River, leave the river on a course to Denver Sluice near Downham Market, where they rejoin the Great Ouse in its tidal part. The village is home to a marina, and during winter months ice skating is popular at nearby Bury Fen. Both activities are depicted in the village sign. Between the two embanked waterways are the earthworks called the Bulwarks, a scheduled ancient monument. Although a bronze Roman figure of Jupiter, now in the British Museum, pottery and other Roman remains have been found in Earith the Bulwarks are not Roman but a 17th century Civil War fortification. They cover over 4.5 acres, with a bastioned quadrangle and outworks.
