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Hit the North! – Stage 2: Little Downham to March
This is stage two of the Hit The North expedition. I set off across Little Downham recreation ground on a bright and sunny autumn morning. The plan was to follow the Hereward Way to March, a distance...
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Hit the North! – Stage 3: March to Whittlesey
This is stage three of the Hit The North expedition. I picked up the trail in the fenland town of March. The route out of the town is very pretty, it follows a path between cottages and gardens with...
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Hit the North! – Stage 4: Whittlesey to Peterborough
This is stage four of the Hit The North expedition. I arrived in Whittlesey and stopped off at the Sunshine Cafe for a fortifying fry-up. Brunch at Cafe Sunshine, Whittlesey After a quick snoop around...
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Hit the North! – Stage 5: Peterborough to Stamford
This is stage five of the Hit The North expedition. This was something of an epic hike, heroic even, especially as night started to fall. I covered 17 miles across the north of the Cambridgeshire fens...
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Waterbeach to Ely via two fen rivers
Winter arrived with this walk. Beautiful blue skies with barely a cloud to be seen, cold but not that cold, all-in-all a perfect day for a hike in the English countryside (despite what those dullards...
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A short walk along the River Lark
The River Lark, a tributary of The Great Ouse, runs for 31 miles through Cambridgeshire and Suffolk. Last Sunday I cycled the three miles from Ely to the attractive fen village of Prickwillow where I...
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Great Ouse Odyssey – stage 5: Earith to Brampton
This is stage five of the Great Ouse Odyssey, a hike along the Ouse Valley Way, from the mouth to the source of the River Great Ouse, the fourth longest river in the UK. The hike was between 16-18...
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A late spring wild camp by the River Wissey in Norfolk
I walked this, the second stage of the Great Ouse cut-off channel expedition, in May 2013. Great Ouse Cut-Off Channel (orange line) / River Wissey (purple line) route I joined the Great Ouse Cut-Off...
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The Wild Wash Wander expedition
Made up largely of saltmarsh and mudflats, the Wash is a bay on the east coast of England, where Norfolk meets Lincolnshire. It is one of the largest estuaries in the UK and is fed by the Rivers...
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Fen winter on the Old Bedford
One cold January lunchtime the dog and I catch a ride to the fen village of Mepal, our plan is to walk six or seven miles or so up the Old Bedford river. It’s a windy, bright day, some clouds on the...
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