ST Where Was I?

[minesapint]

I'm baffled by this one this week. I've managed to work out that the town is Durobrivae, athough it seems it was also called Durobrisin and Durobrivas in the past.

What I can't work out is the feat of 15th century engineering. There's nothing marked on my 1:100000 road atlas of relevance NE of Whittlesey.

It's got to be something staring me in the face. Help!

[slaney]

A hint to start . It was built by Bishop of Ely ( and later Archbishop of Canterbury) John Morton in 1490.
Happy to give you the answer later if this is not enough.

[minesapint]

Ahh, could it be "Morton's Dyke"?

I still can't find it on my atlas!

[minesapint]

Now I've found "Morton's Leam" and I'm even more confused!

[minesapint]

OK, it's got to be Morton's something, but which is it. I've read about both on Google but I still can't locate it.

[lector]

Morton's Leam -
Morton's Leam was built in the last decade of the fifteenth century. It served as a prototype for later schemes across the region, by channelling the Nene's unruly course direct from its entrance into the fens straight to an outfall into the sea.

these online sites help explain

http://www.poppyland.co.uk/index.php?s=WISBECH
(scroll down to 5th paragraph)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/cambridgeshire/natural_hi story/cycle_through_time/04.shtml
(look at the paragraph, opposite the pic of the 'cyclists on route')

and this is it on a map! ....
http://www.streetmap.co.uk/newmap.srf?x=534500 &y=300500&z=3&sv=Morton&st=3&tl=Morton's+Leam, +Cambridgeshire+[Antiquity+(non+Roman)]&search p=newsearch.srf&mapp=newmap.srf

[slaney]

Sorry, minsapint ... went off to bed.
As lector has said-- Morton's Leam...Leam is an anagram of meal which was the other clue.

[minesapint]

Thank you both slaney and lector.

Sorry if I seemed to be panicking but I normally enter the comp online and the website was down over the weekend. I've sent my answer off by snail-mail now.

Thank you both again.

[Top Cat2]

Moreton Leam according to my AA atlas!

[orly]

I agree Top Cat2. Although he was John Morton, road maps have it down as Moreton Leam.
I had the Roman town as Durobrivae, also, minesapint