The famous war poet Rupert Brooke lived at Grantchester some away in the same county. In his famous poem ""The Old Vicarage, Grantchester"" he heaped praise on his own village, but not on the shire town of Cambridge itself, or on the other villages around. Of St Ives he wrote: "St Ives, Slepe by the Ouse", by Noel Hudson. Black Bear Press, 1989,