Wendreda

She established herself in the wetlands of the Fens and according to one source founded a Benedictine nunnery at March, where she spent the rest of her life.

[2] Frances Egerton Arnold-Forster wrote in 1899 that Wendreda may have been an abbess, "for a little piece of ground opposite the church still retains its old name of 'the Nunnery'."

Charles E. Walker, Rector of March in 1890, as saying "It is evident that there was a small conventual establishment there, in all probability connected with S. Wendreda, but no trace of foundations or document can I discover.

[2] However, in Magna Britannia (1808) Daniel and Samuel Lysons stated that they were at Eltisley,[6] and this claim was repeated in 1905 by Agnes Dunbar.

[7] John Betjeman said of it that it was "worth cycling forty miles in a head wind to see",[8] and Clive Fewins has called it "the finest of all angel roofs".

[11] Since the Middle Ages, Wendreda's status has increased, and her influence has travelled out widely from the local level.