A picturesque market town
on the Great Ouse, St Neots owes its existence
to a priory built by a group of Benedictine
monks in the 10th century. They named it after
a diminutive Saxon hermit – said to have been
mentor of Alfred the Great – and brought his
bones from Cornwall for burial. The building
survived until Henry V111 ordered the
destruction of monasteries and only its
foundations remain to be seen today. The town
still has a large square and a 15th century
church noted for its elaborate roof carvings.
