The author describes how the earliest, Neolithic settlements developed by the time the Romans came. After the fall of Rome, Saxon invaders moved in and Leofric built a priory within the parish of Eynesbury and acquired the bones of St Neot to put in it. With the granting of a market the Priory broke away from Eynesbury and became St Neot's town. " ...packed with illustrations ...a well-researched and eminently readable book ..." St Neots Citizen