Ramsey, Cambridgeshire

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Ramsey is a small Cambridgeshire market town, north of Huntingdon and St Ives. It lies in the local government district of Huntingdonshire. The town manor is built on the site of (and using materials from) the ancient abbey, and is the seat of the Lords de Ramsey, one of the major landowners in Lincolnshire and Cambridgeshire. The remains of the Abbey are now home to one of the secondary schools in the town. Ramsey has two secondary schools, Ailwyn School for Years 7-9 (Key Stage 3), Ramsey Abbey School for Years 10-11 (GCSE level) and Years 12-13 (A Level) (Key Stages 4 and 5). However, both these schools are currently going through a merger process to combine them into a single school for Year 7-13 (covering Key Stage 3, GCSEs, and A Levels), to be called Abbey College, Ramsey.