Cambridgeshire
Fenland District
Whittlesey

Must Farm

Must Farm is a Bronze Age archaeological site consisting of five houses raised on stilts above a river built around 950 BC in , England. The settlement is exceptionally well preserved because of its sudden destruction by catastrophic fire and subsequent collapse onto oxygen-depleted river silts.
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  • Type: Archaeological site
  • Description: Bronze Age site in Cambridgeshire, England
  • Also known as: “Must Farm Bronze Age settlement”, “Must Farm Pile-dwelling Site”, “Must Farm quarry”, and “Must Farm wooden platform”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Flag Fen and Peterborough Cathedral.

Archaeological site
Photo: Kev747, CC BY-SA 3.0.
, east of , England, is a Bronze Age site which was constructed about 3,500 years ago and consists of more than 60,000 timbers arranged in five very long rows, creating a wooden causeway across the wet fenland. is situated 1 mile north of Must Farm.

Church
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, properly the Cathedral Church of St Peter, St Paul and St Andrew, and formerly known as Peterborough Abbey or St Peter's Abbey, is a cathedral in , , in the United Kingdom. is situated 2½ miles west of Must Farm.

Archaeological site
Photo: Milestone Society, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is an archaeological site, which is situated 1¼ miles southwest of Must Farm.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Stanground and Eastgate.

Suburb
Photo: Julian Dowse, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a residential area of , in the ceremonial county of , England. For electoral purposes, it comprises the South and Fletton & wards in the North West Cambridgeshire constituency. is situated 2 miles west of Must Farm.

Suburb
is a suburb of , in the ceremonial county of , England. It lies immediately to the east of and west of Fengate. is situated 2 miles northwest of Must Farm.

Suburb
Old Fletton was an urban district in the county of and then Huntingdon and Peterborough. The urban district was abolished in 1974 under the Local Government Act 1972, and now forms part of the city of Peterborough in . is situated 2½ miles west of Must Farm.

Must Farm

Latitude
52.562° or 52° 33′ 43″ north
Longitude
-0.184° or 0° 11′ 2″ west
Elevation
85 feet (26 metres)
Open location code
9C4XHR68+RC
Open­Street­Map ID
node 3943413373
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­archaeological_site
Geo­Names ID
13405513
Wiki­data ID
Q22047654
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In Other Languages

From French to Russian—“Must Farm” goes by many names.

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Must Farm”. Photo: Dr. Colleen Morgan, CC BY 2.0.