With its hallowed streets, glorious colleges and peaceful riverside walks along the Cam, Cambridge is the jewel in the crown of Cambridgeshire and a richly rewarding city to tour on foot. This is a big county, however, and it is well worth exploring the countryside beyond the glittering city.

Cambridgeshire is also the lowest and flattest place in England and the straight roads, endless network of dykes and isoloted windmills of the fenlands have a stange minimalist magnetism which is hard to resist.

List of Walk Locations

Cambridge city and green corridors

The Backs - 3km
Cambridge arts and culture 4.5km
Coe Fen wildlife walk - 2.5km
Riverside and Fen Ditton - 5km
Hobson's Brook and Addenbrooke's - 4km
Eddington and west Cambridge - 5km
Nine Wells and Hobson's Obelisk - 3km
Grantchester Meadows - 8.5km
Mill Road and Cherry Hinton Brook - 4km

Cam Valley and chalk hills

Trumpington Meadows and Byron's Pool - 7km
Wandlebury Country Park - 3.5km
Great Abington circular - 4.5km
Hildersham and Linton - 11.5km
Linton and Great Chesterford - 15km
Sawston and Babraham - 5km
Duxford and Hinxton - 7km
Barrington and Harlton - 8km

East Cambridgeshire

Waterbeach Village and Bait's bite Lock - 4km
Wicken Fen - 7km
Anglesey Abbey and Quy Fen - 7.2km
Devil's Dyke - 12km
Fulbourn Fen and Fleam Dyke - 7km
Fordham Woods and Chippenham Fen - 8.5km
Weston Colville and Brinkley - 8.5km
Horseheath and West Wickham - 7.5km

Ely and the Fens

Roswell Pits - 3km
Ely Cathedral and Cawdle Fen - 3.5km
Stretham Old Engine - 7km
Witcham - 4.5km
Fen Drayton Lakes - 2.8km
Woodwalton Fen - 5km
Holme Fen - 4km
The Ouse Washes - 9km

West Cambridgeshire and Huntingdon

Great Cambourne to Bourn Windmill - 4km
Gamlingay Wood - 4.5km
Wimpole Hall - 7.5km
Houghton Mill and the meadows - 3.5km
St Ives and Holt Island - 2.5km
Brampton Wood - 4.5km
Abbots Ripton and Wennington - 5km