 The location is likely to have been originally settled due to the gravel beds providing a ford across the River Great Ouse.The place was listed as "Godmundcestre" in the Domesday Book of 1086 in the Hundred of Leightonstone in Huntingdonshire.The survey records that there were 26 ploughlands, with capacity for a further 31 and, in addition to the arable land, there were of meadows, of woodland and three water mills, a church and a priest.