REACH, a hamlet partly in the parish of BURWELL,
hundred of STAPLOE, and partly in that of SWAFFHAMPRIOR,
hundred of STAINE, county of CAMBRIDGE, 5
miles (W. N. W.) from Newmarket. The population is
returned with the parishes. This was anciently a market
town, to which ships of considerable burden had
access before the draining of the fens; it had a church,
which has long been'demolished. A large fair for horses,
granted to the corporation of Cambridge by charter of
King John, is still held here on Rogation Monday.