waste of waters at the point where Cambridgeshire, Northamptonshire

and Lincolnshire meet by the edge of Deeping Fen. No road led to it, and the fenmen's boats were the only means of passage.

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Cowbit Church.

ST. GUTHLAC Guthlac was, we are told, the son of Penwald, a Mercian nobleman, and he was very likely born not far from Croyland. After nine years' military service he entered the monastery of Hrypadon, or Repton, and after two years' study resolved to take up the life of an Anchorite. So, in defiance of the evil spirits who were reputed to have their abode there, and who