Warboys

A large village on the edge of the fens between St. Ives and Ramsey, Warboys enjoys the rather dubious distinction of being the last recorded place from which three witches were ultimately hanged at Huntingdon in 1593 after being found guilty of witchcraft at Huntingdon Assizes.
The rather odd name of Warboys is partly Anglo-Saxon and partly Norman-French and means "Look-Out Wood". In recent years it has grown a great deal as a residential area and its small central core of streets with their shops have almost a town-like appearance with, at its heart, a tall Victorian clock tower with a gabled roof.
Older buildings of interest include the 16th Century manor house and church whose splendid 13th Century tower and spire is one of the finest in the District.
Close to the village is Pingle Wood Cutting a nature reserve managed by the Wildlife Trust and noted for its masses of quite rare spotted orchids and, just off the nature trail, are a few of the even rarer bee orchids