The Danes again invaded in 1010 fighting their way up the River Ouse burning the country as they went this was during the reign of Ethelred the Unready. Eventually Canute became King of all England.
He had a hunting-box at Bodney, close to Ramsey, and gave his name to a ‘dike’ (road with a ditch on one side) running from Ramsey towards Peterborough. It was after a near fatal accident when trying to travel by boat across The Mere that he ordered the dike to be built.