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Devil's Dyke, Cambridgeshire
Devil's Dyke (also called Reach Dyke or Devil's Ditch, once known as St Edmund's Ditch) is an earthwork in the English county of Cambridgeshire. Part of it actually is the county boundary between Cambridgeshire and Suffolk. It consists of a long bank and ditch that runs in a south-east direction from the small village of Reach to nearby Woodditton. It is generally assumed to be an Anglo-Saxon earthwork and is one of the largest and best surviving examples of its kind in England.
== Description ==
Devil's Dyke is over long and is the largest of a series of ancient Cambridgeshire dykes. In some places the bank measures high and across. Its highest point is at Gallows Hill where it measures from the bottom of the ditch to the top of the earth wall.
Since the 19th century a railway line and roads have been cut through the dyke, including the combined A14 and A11 roads, and a branch line of the Ipswich to Ely rail line.
From Reach, the dyke crosses farmland, before running along the edge of the July Course at Newmarket Racecourse and then through the woods of a private estate near the village of Woodditton.〔Cambridgeshire Historic Environment Record 07801.〕 The Rowley Mile course is unusual in that it can have races which start in one county, Cambridgeshire, and finish in another, Suffolk. It crosses the Devil's Dyke where it has been previously levelled.
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