Stonea

Stonea is a hamlet in Cambridgeshire, England, south east of March and part of the parish of Wimblington.

[1] Stonea today consists of a scattered collection of farmsteads and houses, the majority sited along Sixteen Foot Bank, a man-made river which forms part of the Middle Level Navigations.

[3][4] There has been human habitation in the area since at least 500 BC; Stonea Camp archaeological site is the lowest Iron Age hill fort in Britain.

[5][6] The camp itself was ploughed over in the 1960s, but the filled-in ditches were restored to the bank formation by the British Museum and Cambridgeshire County Council in the 1980s.

In the 1990s, a Fay Weldon adaptation of Growing Rich, starring Martin Kemp and John Le Stride was filmed in Stonea and Chatteris.