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Main Walk: 9.6 Miles/15.5km Shortcut 1: 7.2 Miles/11.5km Explore the countryside between the market town of Sandy and the village of Everton Shortcut 2: 8.2 miles/13km Following part of the Greensand Ridge Walk along the way Time: The whole route approximately 5 hours. Referred to as Sandie in the Domesday Book, taken from the The Pinnacle Woodbury Hall Old English meaning a sand island, Sandy is dominated by an The Pinnacle is owned by the Pym family and is leased to This was one of a number of important country houses built in outcrop known locally as the Sand Hills, and formed part of Sandy Town Council. The outcrop of the Greensand Ridge the early 18th century along the top of the Greensand Ridge, the early English kingdom of Mercia. By 1290 it was split into that was formed about 125 million years ago is 300 feet above which runs through Cambridgeshire and Bedfordshire. Among three smaller estates – Sandy Manor under the Beauchamp’s sea level and provides excellent views over the Ivel Valley. them Everton Hall and Hazells Hall close by, and further to the and two under local monasteries. ‘Caesar’s Camp’ near the Pinnacle is the site of a British hill west, Ickwell Bury, Ampthill Park and Woburn Abbey. fort of Pre-Roman origin. Roman Sandy Tetworth Hall There is evidence of a settlement in the Sandy area from at Tempsford The Hall, built of sandstone in approximately 1710 for John least the middle Iron Age suggesting that early Sandy would Tempsford Airfield was built in 1941 and during World War II Pedley MP, was damaged by fire in the 1940s and has since have been a self-sufficient farming settlement using the was used as a base for Special Operations Executive (S.O.E.) been rebuilt in brick to a design by Sir Basil Spence. plentiful water supply as a resource. Excavations have agents. The airfield was closed to the RAF in 1947, and is still Valley Farm, a medieval farmhouse at the foot of the hill below revealed remains of a roundhouse and pottery has been intact. The field barn beside the bridleway, once formed part of Tetworth Hall is believed to have been built about 1650 on the recovered in the cemetery and allotments area. Gibraltar Farm and remains as a memorial to those agents site of huge stone circles in part of Canons Manor. A significant who took part in many dangerous operations in occupied The town gained importance when the Romans arrived in moat system lies around it, fed by nearby springs. AD 43 and grew up around a Mansio (mansion) on the Roman Europe, while assisting the various Resistance movements. road that ran from Baldock in Hertfordshire to Godmanchester Equipment for these operations was issued in the barn and St Mary’s Church racks for supplies and equipment can still be seen. in Cambridgeshire and developed to meet the needs of the The major feature of the village of Everton, the present building Roman Imperial Post system. This was a network of White Wood dates from the 12th century with 14th century additions to the messengers and later of relay posts, where the same tower and porch. The 11th century Domesday Book records a This is an ancient woodland of about 60 acres and records messenger could change horses and continue the journey. church on the site. Until the boundary changes in 1974, much indicate that a wood has been on this site from at least 1297. The collapse of the Roman Empire and withdrawal of the of the present Everton parish, including the church, was in the Most of the trees are pine but there are some fine specimens Romans from Britain in 410 AD would have initiated the return former county of Huntingdonshire. of Sandy to its agricultural roots. of native trees. The lime trees are thought to be about 200 years old when the wood was extensively replanted but some The Lodge A large number of Roman remains have been found in Sandy, of the oaks date back 300 years. Evidence shows that it was This is the national headquarters of the RSPB and is a nature and it seems likely that it was once a thriving Roman managed as a plantation from the early 1800’s with a variety of reserve opened in 1961. The woodland, heath and acid settlement. Some of the remains are on display at Sandy exotic trees that were probably planted when Woodbury Hall grassland here cover 180 hectares, and are being restored to Town Council Offices. was first built. form the largest stretch of heathland in Bedfordshire.