Stowbridge

The Great Ouse, the Relief Channel and the mainline railway from King's Lynn to Cambridge run through the heart of the community.

[1] In around 1181, a group of hermetic women arrived from Lynn to set up a community in a "desolate and marshy place" (ref: Register of Crabhouse Nunnery, British Library).

[3] After massive flooding from inland water in the early 13th Century which washed away the nunnery such that they had to seek refuge at St Mary Magdalen.

That was to come later when the Hares of Stow Bardolph Hall took possession of the lands to the south and west of the old Priory in the era after its dissolution by Henry VIII's commissioners in 1537.

[5] The church has a stained glass window to the memory of the Reverend James Adams (1839-1903), vicar of Stow from 1895 to 1902, who had held services in a schoolroom.