Editing The Fens (section)

==Settlements==
Many historic cities, towns and villages have grown up in the fens, sited chiefly on the few areas of raised ground. These include:
* [[Boston, Lincolnshire|Boston]], port and administrative centre of the [[Boston (borough)|Borough of Boston]]
* [[Chatteris, Cambridgeshire|Chatteris]], a market town
* City of [[Ely, Cambridgeshire|Ely]] (meaning "Isle of Eels"), whose [[Ely Cathedral|cathedral]]&nbsp;– one of the Fen Five monasteries&nbsp;– is known as the "Ship of the Fens"; administrative centre of the [[East Cambridgeshire|East Cambridgeshire District Council]]
* [[Cottenham]], one of the five [[Silicon Fen]]-Edge Villages strung out along the Fens' southernmost border, just north of [[Cambridge]] in [[Cambridgeshire]] – from west to east: [[Willingham, Cambridgeshire|Willingham]], [[Rampton, Cambridgeshire|Rampton]], [[Cottenham]], [[Landbeach]] and [[Waterbeach]];
* [[Crowland]], one of the Fen Five monasteries; also a medieval [[Trinity Bridge, Crowland|triangular bridge]];
* [[Donington, Lincolnshire|Donington]], birthplace of the explorer [[Matthew Flinders]]
* [[Guyhirn]], bridging point over the Nene and home to a 17th-century Puritan chapel 
* [[Holbeach, Lincolnshire|Holbeach]], a market town
* [[Littleport, Cambridgeshire|Littleport]], a large village approximately {{convert|6|mi|km}} north of Ely
* [[Little Thetford]], settled on a [[boulder clay]] island within the fens since the [[Bronze Age]], {{convert|3|mi|km}} south of Ely
* [[Long Sutton, Lincolnshire|Long Sutton]], a market town and home to UK's largest food cannery
* [[March, Cambridgeshire|March]], a market town and administrative centre of the [[Fenland District]]
* [[Market Deeping, Lincolnshire|Market Deeping]], a market town
* [[Parson Drove]], the village was the last location of a mobile [[Woad]] mill.
* City of [[Peterborough]], the largest of the many settlements along the fen edge and sometimes called the "Gateway to the Fens"; its [[Peterborough Cathedral|cathedral]] is one of the Fen Five monasteries; administrative centre of the Peterborough [[Unitary Authority]]
* [[Ramsey, Cambridgeshire|Ramsey]], a market town; one of the Fen Five monasteries
* [[Ring's End]] named after an early drainage project.
* [[Soham]], a market town.
* [[Spalding, Lincolnshire|Spalding]], a market town, administrative centre of [[South Holland, Lincolnshire|South Holland]], and famed for its annual Flower Parade held from 1959 to 2013 which was revived in 2023.
* [[Thorney, Cambridgeshire|Thorney]], one of the Fen Five monasteries; later model village and agricultural estates of the [[Dukes of Bedford]]
* [[Tydd St Giles]] a low lying village formerly in the hundred of Wisbech.
* [[Tydd St Mary]] a parish in [[South Holland, Lincolnshire|South Holland]], five miles north of Wisbech.
* [[Walsoken]], formerly in Norfolk, but part of which was merged with Wisbech in the 20th century.
* [[Whittlesey]], a market town; annual Straw Bear Festival
* [[Wisbech]] ("Capital of the Fens"<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.wisbech-town.co.uk/|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080430200311/http://www.wisbech-town.co.uk/|url-status=dead|title=Welcome to Wisbech|archive-date=30 April 2008|website=Wisbech-town.co.uk|access-date=31 May 2022}}</ref>), a market town and [[Port of Wisbech|port]].
Ancient sites include:
* [[Flag Fen]], a Bronze Age settlement
* [[Must Farm]], a Bronze Age settlement
* [[Stonea Camp]], an Iron Age hill fort
* [[Wisbech Castle]], the site of a Norman castle.
* March Sconce, a [[English Civil War|Civil War]] fieldwork.