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Thorney

Thorney Abbey, the Church of St Mary and St Botolph, is still a dominating presence, even though what now stands is but a small part of what was once one of the greatest of the Benedictine abbeys. Gravestones in the churchyard are evidence of a Huguenot colony that settled here after fleeing France in the wake of the St Bartholomew's Day massacre of 1572 to settle the drained fenland at the request of Oliver Cromwell.

The Thorney Heritage Museum is a small, independently-run museum of great fascination, describing the development of the village from a Saxon monastery, via Benedictine Abbey to a model village built in the 19th century by the Dukes of Bedford. The main innovation was a 10,000-gallon water tank that supplied the whole village; other villages had to use unfiltered river water. Open Easter to the end of September.