Round Hill, Conington

South of Glatton and 1.5 miles west of Conington church on an eastern spur is a partly moated pentagonal enclosure within a medieval deer park accessed by a footbridge from the east. The 1613 map shows a circular garden in a wooded area divided by cross paths, possibly edged with hedges. At the centre was a lodge, now demolished.

To the west was a symmetrical ogee space edged with trees. The whole area was probably intended for a house to be built by Sir Robert Cotton (1586-1631), who lived at Conington Castle. A sketch made in 1912 shows a two-storeyed gate lodge with a pediment above a large recessed circular arch. The site is no doubt the subject of the old ryme, ‘Glatton round hill/ Yaxley stone mill/ and Whittlesey mere/ Are the three wonders of Huntingdonshire’.