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Walks in the Great Chesterford area
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Icknield Way
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This 105 mile long distance path
passes through Great Chesterford. The Icknield Way is unique among long
distance tracks because it can claim to be 'the oldest road in Britain'.
Extending from Ivinghoe Beacon in Buckinghamshire to Knettishall Heath in
Norfolk, it consists of prehistoric pathways, ancient when the Romans
came. Dotted with archaeological remains, it survives as splendid tracks
and green lanes along the chalk 'spine' of England.
See www.icknieldwaypath.co.uk
for more information.
Part of the Icknield Way Path is shown on the Chesterford
Map - a 2 mile walk (walk 1) via public footpath up the hill opposite
the caravan site and return along Cow Lane. |
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Walk to Springwell
See the Chesterford
Map (Walk 2) - take the public footpath from Rose Lane in Great
Chesterford to Little Chesterford, walk on the road to the village hall,
and then on along a public footpath to Springwell. Return the same way or
alongside the road (on verge, then pavement).
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Walks around Saffron Walden Saffron Walden Tourist Information
Centre has a range of leaflets detailing a number of short walks in and
around Saffron Walden. 6 walks around Saffron Walden
Walk 1 - Cole End Lane Walk, Walk
2 - Frogs Green Walk, Walk 3 - Burntwood End
Walk, Walk 4 - Saffron Walden Parks and Gardens
Walk, Walk 5 - Beechy Ride Walk, Walk
6 - Grimsditch Wood |
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Wandlebury
Also known as the Gogs or Gog Magog Hills,
Wandlebury has beautiful woodland and chalk grassland areas and is open to
the public for quiet recreation from dawn until dusk, every day of the
year. On the A1307 just south of Cambridge, only 10 minutes from Great
Chesterford.
See www.cpswandlebury.org
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Magog Down
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Magog Down is opposite Wandlebury - to find the car park take the
Stapleford road from the A1307. Magog Down is 163 acres of land previously
intensively farmed, but now an area for conservation and recreation. It
has two meadows sown with wild flowers and grasses native to chalk
grassland, six woods with over 24,000 trees native to the chalk meadows of
over a century ago. It is seeing the return of ground-nesting birds,
like the skylark, and native flowering plants like the cowslip. A map
showing walks can be found at www.magogtrust.org.uk.
The map opposite shows a walk taking in both Magog Down and Wandlebury.
See http://www.shelford.org/walk4.htm
for a description of the walk.
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Devils Dyke
(Devil's Ditch)
Devil's Dyke (also known as Devils Ditch) is a Special Site of
Scientific Interest (SSSI) - one of the best and most extensive
areas of flowering chalk grassland in the area.
The ditch and rampart is about 7 miles long from Reach to
Stetchworth. Devils Dyke is thought to have been built between
500-600AD by the East Anglian Saxons to block attacks from Mercians
to the west.
A public footpath runs along the top of the Devil's Dyke's
rampart
See http://www.wood-ditton.org.uk/devilsditch.htm
for more information about Devil's Ditch. .
For maps, search for Reach or Stetchworth on www.multimap.com |
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Fleam Dyke
Map
1 Map
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Public footpath from
Fulbourn near Cambridge to Balsham.
Runs on top of a 7th Century Earthwork.
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