House surveys in Cambridgeshire

Cambridgeshire, including Peterborough, runs from the university city of Cambridge through market towns on the Great Ouse to the flat, fertile Fens around Ely, March and Wisbech. Cambridge has a huge stock of listed and Victorian homes alongside major new developments, Peterborough was expanded as a new town from 1967, and Huntingdon and St Neots took London overspill. Much of the south of the county sits on Gault clay and the north on Oxford Clay, both highly shrinkable, while the Fens have peat and silt that shrink as they dry. Flood risk from the Great Ouse, Nene and the Fenland drainage system is a key survey theme across the county.