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Crowledemor II
Crowlededmor is the name of some fertile meadow lands that lay between Somersham and Chatteris. The land was drained and ploughed over in the 17th century but up until that time had been a common land of water meadows claimed by both the Bishop of Ely (for his villagers of Somersham)and the Abbot of Ramsey (for his of Chatteris). The name Crowlode still survives as the name of a farm half way between the two villages.
1335/36. This year the Queen came to Ramsey where, after two days she died.
And in the same year the men from the soke of Somersham mowed the meadows, cut rushes and chopped down alder branches from Crowledemor and on account of that fact the abbot (of Ramsey) brought a prosecution against them in the court of the King. At length the men of the soke came with William Michell, steward of the Bishop of Ely, and they came to Ramsey and submitted themselves to the mercy of the aforesaid abbot for their transgressions.
From the Chronicles of Ramsey Abbey
Translated by Andy Lee