[3] The 1.7-megawatt system uses a combination of solar panels, heat pumps, underground storage and electric boilers.

Homes that connect to it can tap into the heat via existing radiators and hot water appliances without changing equipment.

It contains a rood screen, and has a series of stained glass windows showing scenes from World War I.

John George Witt, the barrister and Q.C./K.C., was born in 1836 at Denny Abbey, Waterbeach, Cambridgeshire, and was a son of James Maling Witt (1799–1870), a prosperous farmer at Waterbeach and at Queens' College Farm, Swaffham Prior.

Just a mile or so north of Swaffham Prior is the Anglo-Saxon defensive earthwork known as the Devil's Dyke, blocking a land route through the fens.

Swaffham Prior chalk escarpment, observable only in a few places within the village is largely physically hidden from view.

This local geological feature of the landscape is the chalk (local term clunch) escarpment of Swaffham Prior and it runs the full length of this East Cambridgeshire village dating back to Anglo-saxon times.

The more modern sections of the village are built along the top of the escarpment with the older houses nestling below the cliff face backing on to the high street.