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Ely
A river and fenland walk to the stunning cathedral city.
The Old Engine and the Lazy Otter
Along the Great Ouse to a historic pumphouse and a popular riverside pub.
Little Thetford
Two villages and atmospheric fenland droves around the White Cross Farm.
Wicken Fen Nature Reserve

Easy walk starting at Wicken Fen Nature Reserve parking. The walk is along the waterways.
Chatteris Airfield

A walk along the Forty-foot drain looping up around the airfield, the route is via public footpaths apart from the last 400m which is along the road.
Histon loop via Oakington
A surprisingly rural walk on the outskirts of Cambridge, seeing the Histon and Oakington parish churches and an ancient oak. Occasional glimpses of guided buses hurtling along.
Around Fen Ditton, along the Cam River

A picturesque walk (public paths) along the famous river that gave its name to Cambridge. Enjoy seeing the rowers racing in their fragile boats, the cox shouting at them, and the coach biking along the path.
Histon and Girton
A circular walk from Histon to Girton and beyond. Through woods, across fields and on a variety of tracks and roads.
Stetchworth Circular
A lovely walk around the Cambridgeshire border.
Oakington, Rampton and Longstanton
A largely rural walk through three villages near Cambridge with interesting churches. One section passes an old airfield being developed as the new town of Northstowe.
Round route through the gallops of Little Ditton
See where the racehorses train and enjoy the panorama of the Cambridgeshire countryside from some of it’s higher points.
Dullingham Circular
Discover the start of Constable's river Stour.
Grantchester & Byron's pool from Cambridge

You will enjoy the scenery south of Cambridge along the Cam river, and the picturesque village of Grantchester.
Great Bradley Circular
Discover the start of the river Stour, Constable's country
Orwell, Harlton & Haslingfield Figure-of-Eight
This is a lovely gentle walk taking in the Cambridgeshire villages of Harlton and Haslingfield in a figure-of-eight route which takes you through open farmland, a woodland path and Harlton clunch pit. As this is a figure-of-eight walk passing through Harlton clunch pit twice it can obviously be split into two separate shorter routes of similar mileage. It can also be completed in either clockwise or anti-clockwise direction.
Station to Station
For those 3 easy walks, you will visit the 3 stations composing the Meldreth, Shepreth and Foxton Community Rail Partnership.
Foxton Station to Shepreth Station
A point to point walk from Foxton Station to Shepreth Station with a nice woody interlude through the Wimbish Estate.
Around Foxton

From Foxton Railway Station you can take in the sights of Foxton - the Dovecot, Foxton Wood, St Laurence Church and the White Horse Pub.
Nar Valley Way - Narborough to Dereham

A walk along the Nar Valley Way from Narborough to Dereham.This route is full of historic features including ruins of priories and castles as well as magnificent halls and watermills. The walk provides a varied landscape with woodland trails, riverside paths and saunters across open fields of this pleasant Norfolk countryside. Although a lengthy section of the Nar Valley Way there is plenty of time to accomplish the feat with late buses linking the two ends.
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