Chudovo

Chudovo grew on the Kerest River north of Novgorod. A 1539 land survey of the Vodskaya district records both the village of Chudovo and Chudovskaya Luka, situated in a bend of the river. Other small villages and clearings lay along the Kerest and its tributaries. Chudovskaya Luka later moved to the great Tikhvin road, joining the river settlements to an overland route through the forests between Novgorod and the northern lands.