ITINERARY 1 Exploring , WWT Welney and Ely

Morning Once you have finished exploring Wigeon Café at WWT Welney offers Afternoon stay with an overnight stop. Call into • Cycling from Ely Cathedral to Downham Market, Denver Sluice or warming lunches or slices of cake with a Ely Tourist Information Centre to find Wicken Fen (National Trust), a 9 Start in Downham Market, one of completing a circular walk, why not cuppa. All of which is enhanced by the Travel on towards Ely for a culture filled out more about the accommodation mile mostly traffic-free route www.( ’s oldest market towns. Explore stop in Downham Market for a well- gorgeous panoramic view of . afternoon. Ely boasts one of the most available and let them help you make sustrans.org.uk/route/ely-wicken-fen) the history of the area at the Downham earned coffee and cake stop. For more about WWT Welney visit magnificent cathedrals in the UK and the most of your time in Ely • Museum – its collection Market & District Heritage Centre www.wwt.org.uk/welney is home to Oliver Cromwell’s House, (www.visitely.org.uk). of diesel engines tells the story of the (www.discoverdownham.org.uk), Around Lunch-Time Ely Museum and the Stained Glass drainage of the Fens, the people or venture out on a beautiful walk “a year-round destination, Museum which are all within easy Extending your stay who ran them and the history of the around Denver Sluice and the Fens. Travel to WWT Welney where you can WWT Welney has one walking distance. The riverside area local area Norfolk County Council produce a explore an extensive wetland area. is also perfect for walking, relaxing, Ely is a great base for exploring the (www.prickwillowmuseum.com). guide to walks in and around the Between Easter and mid-October of the largest wetland dining or water based activities. Ely area – other suggestions • Shopping – Ely is home to some Downham Market area – visit www. you can use the equipment provided habitats in the UK” Liberty Belle Cruises provide river include: great independent shopping, norfolk.gov.uk, search ‘Health Heritage at dedicated pond-dipping stations, cruises along the Great Ouse. 30 regular weekly markets -including a and Biodiversity Walks’, and select and get a closer look at some of the minute cruises depart regularly from • Cycling or walking along Sustrans fortnightly Farmers’ Market recently Downham Market. underwater inhabitants. There is a the riverside near the Maltings starting Route 11, which connects Harlow in voted one of the best nationally summer walk available, so you can also from 11am daily between March and Essex with Wigginhall St Germans (‘Observer Sunday Readers Survey Longer walks are available along fully explore the wetlands. A year-round the end of October. (south of Kings Lynn) in Norfolk, Oct 2016’) - and a good selection of the Fen Rivers Way which runs for destination, WWT Welney has one via and Ely. The route high street brands. nearly 50 miles between Kings Lynn of the largest wetland habitats in the If you are then looking for dinner – Ely passes straight through Downham and Cambridge, passing near to UK, where you can see hundreds of is bursting with choice to cater for all Market Downham Market (www.norfolk.gov. wintering swans, flocks of ducks and tastes. You can spend much more (www.sustrans.org.uk/route/route-11) uk/fenriversway). wading birds as well as hares. Wrap up than just an afternoon in Ely, so you warm and enjoy a commentated wild might want to consider extending your swan feed or a guided hare walk. The Image (across): Bug hunting at WWT Welney Wetland Centre by Bob Ellis. Images (below, clockwise from bottom left): bottom clockwise from (below, Images Ellis. Bob by Centre Wetland Welney WWT hunting at Bug (across): Image Kino Takeshi by Washes RSPB Ouse from Cathedral Ely Bancroft, Phil by Sluice Denver Dean, Allan by Welney WWT at Swan Whooper

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