Excerpt from A Century of Village Nonconformity at Bluntisham, Hunts;, 1787 to 1887: With Introductory Sketches of Religious Life in the 17th and 18th Centuries The village of bluntisham-cum-earith, in Huntingdon shire, is situated on the left bank of the river Ouse, on the borders of the Cambridgeshire Fens. Earith is on the low ground, where its neat respectable looking houses fringe either side of the high-road leading to the bridge which crosses the Ouse. Here was the ancient ford through the river and the causeway across the marshy ground leading on to the Isle of Ely. The Romans appear to have thrown up earthworks at this point as a protection from marauders by river, having their settlement in the more healthy district of their Colonia - the Colne of our day. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.