Cambourne Discovery

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Cambourne Access Local wildlife needs you Cambourne and Beyond Cambridgeshire County Council is responsible for The Wildlife Trust relies on our supporters to public rights of way in this area. They are working continue to protect our beautiful local wildlife and Cambourne with land owners to improve accessibility by countryside. Please contact us to find out how Discovery Map replacing stiles with gates. There may still be some you can get involved in helping the Trust and for Knapwell stiles and steps and the ground could be muddy information about Wildlife Trust nature reserves Discovery Map Papworth Overhall and uneven, especially after heavy rain. close to you. If you are not already a member of For more information on countryside access in your local Wildlife Trust, find out how you can Everard Grove Cambridgeshire go to support us in our vital conservation work in this www.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/countryside area. KEY Public transport Visit: www.wildlifebcnp.org For information about local public transport E-mail: [email protected] contact Travel Line on 0871 200 2233 (8am – 8pm) Tel: 01954 713543 Bridleway/Byway or at www.travelline.org.uk Post: The Wildlife Trust, The Manor House, Broad A map of bus services can be found at Street, Great Cambourne, Cambridge, CB23 6DH Footpath www.cambridgeshire.gov.uk Permissive path Maps Acknowledgements Suggested walk You may find it useful to have the Ordnance

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Wildlife Trust A1 y There are many groups in the area that organise b Nature Reerve 1 walks, runs and cycle rides. Look in local shops or 9 newsletters for adverts. 8 Lower A428 Note – not all rights of way are Upper www.wildlifebcnp.org P h o t g r a p included on this map and the Cambourne The Wildlife Trust for Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Northamptonshire information may change over Cambourne and Peterborough. Registered charity no: 1000412 time, please check before setting out. Eltisley Hardwick Map created March 2011 Circular walks Wildlife Countryside code These are suggested walks that start in Within Cambourne the Wildlife Trust manages the Help us protect the countryside by following Great Cambourne and explore some of the surrounding greenspaces to make them a haven for wildlife. the code Cambourne countryside. Please note, these have not been The main circular walk around the perimeter has Be safe, plan ahead and follow any signs N especially way marked, so you may want to take a been planted to form a strip of woodland, with Caldecote more detailed Ordnance Survey map with you. large grassy areas filled with wildflowers. These Leave gates and property as you find them areas are fantastic for birds, many insects and Protect plants and animals and take your mammals. The surrounding countryside is mainly litter home Short - Caxton arable farmland with some hedges and small Keep dogs under close control Bourn Distance – about 4km/2.5miles/1 hour woodlands which also provide places for wildlife. Consider other people Caxton Post Mill Start – Oaks Wood car park More information on the code is available from Take the bridleway from the centre of Cambourne Natural England or at to Caxton, turn right and walk back to Cambourne www.countrysideaccess.gov.uk Hardwick by the footpath (to make the walk longer, turn south in Caxton and loop around the west of Wood Caxton on bridleways and footpaths). Dogs Please clear up after your dog and observe any Medium – Knapwell and Elsworth signs asking you to keep it on a lead, especially around farm animals. Distance – about 11km/7miles/3 hours 0 500m 1km Start – Cambourne Business Park Nature reserves to visit Way marking Walk north out of Cambourne up to Knapwell and The Wildlife Trust has several nature reserves in through Overhall Grove. Take the footpath from the area that are free and always open to visit. The Public rights of way are often way marked with coloured arrows. Bourn Knapwell to Elsworth and then return by the three marked on the map are: bridleway back to Cambourne. Hardwick Wood – an ancient woodland with coppiced areas to benefit wildflowers and birds. Footpaths for walkers Long – Bourn and Hardwick Wood Overhall Grove – the largest elm woodland in Distance – about 20km/12.5miles/5 hours Cambridgeshire. Many are regenerating after being affected by Dutch elm disease. Bridleways for walkers, horse riders and Start – Cambourne church cyclists Waresley and Gransden Woods – a glorious carpet Great Walk south past the eastern lakes and out of Toft of bluebells in May, you can also see part of the Gransden Cambourne towards Bourn. From Bourn you take Trust’s project to join up South Cambs woodlands. Byways for walkers, riders, cyclists and the footpath towards Toft and then up to Hardwick ‘road legal’ motor vehicles. These may Wood. Return to Bourn along the bridleway and be seasonally closed to motor vehicles. This map is based upon Ordnance Survey material with the permission of Ordnance then back to Cambourne. For directions and more information about these Waresley and Survey on behalf of the Controller of Her Majesty's Stationery Office © Crown copyright. and other nature reserves to visit, please go to Unauthorised reproduction infringes Crown copyright and may lead to prosecution or www.wildlifebcnp.org Permissive paths are granted by land owners. Gransden Woods To calculate walking times Remember that permission can be withdrawn. The civil proceedings. Little Most people walk at about 2.5 miles per hour (4km Wildlife Trust has some permissive paths on nature Longstowe Cambridgeshire County Council 100023205 (2011) per hour), but you may want to stop along the way reserves which are usually marked with a black Gransden to look at wildlife or at the pub! arrow on an orange disk.