{{Short description|Village in Cambridgeshire, England}} {{Use dmy dates|date=October 2019}} {{Use British English|date=June 2025}} {{More citations needed|date=March 2020}} {{Infobox UK place | official_name = Ramsey Heights | country = England | region = East of England | os_grid_reference = TL2585 | coordinates = {{coord|52.4532|-0.1577|display=inline,title}} | post_town = Huntingdon | postcode_area = PE | postcode_district = PE26 | dial_code = 01487 | shire_county = Cambridgeshire | shire_district = Huntingdonshire | population = | hide_services = | static_image = | static_image_caption = }}
'''Ramsey Heights''' is a village in Ramsey civil parish, part of the Huntingdonshire district of Cambridgeshire, England.
The Ramsey Heights nature reserve is located on the edge of the village and the larger Woodwalton Fen National Nature Reserve is {{convert|2|mi|0}} to the southwest of the village.
Despite its name, the village is low-lying and straddles the zero-metre contour line in the flat fenland.<ref>{{cite map |title=Peterborough March, Whittlesey, Chatteris & Oundle |scale=1:25,000 |url=https://www.bing.com/maps/?mkt=en-gb&v=2&cp=52.4532~-0.1577&lvl=15&sp=Point.52.4532_-0.1577_Ramsey%20Heights&sty=s |publisher=Ordnance Survey}}</ref>
== History == On 22 November 1940, a Supermarine Spitfire, flown by Pilot Officer Harold Penketh, crashed into Holme Fen.
In October 2015, archaeological work to recover the Second World War Spitfire was undertaken. The dig's project director was Stephen Macauley of Oxford Archaeology East (OAE). A film of the dig was shown at the Great Fen's Countryside Centre, Ramsey Heights on 27 September 2019.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Fitton|first=Caroline|title=Great Fen Spitfire|journal=The Fens: Wisbech & Surrounding|volume=18|page=32|date=2019}}</ref>
==Notable residents== *Sybil Marshall (1913–2005), writer, academic and social historian was born in the village.
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