ROUTE FINDING WALK Key to landscape features You will need a basic understanding of maps and the ability to follow them. The walks can be followed in either direction, but if you go in the same way as the Marpa STATION TO STATION WALKS 12 arrows, you won’t have to turn the map around to fit the landscape. to ELY TIME 6½ miles - 3-4 hours Allow about 3-4 hours, but add on time for refresh- ments, visiting nature reserves and churches. MAPS OS Explorer sheet 226 Ely and Newmarket. REFRESHMENTS

Wide choice of pubs, shops and eating places in So- ham and Ely. USEFUL INFORMATION National Rail Enquiries www.nationalrail.co.uk 03457 48 49 50 Traveline www.traveline.info 0871 200 22 33 Soham library has excellent leaflets on the town’s his- tory and millennium walks and art trail ELY CATHEDRAL WALKS IN THIS SERIES All the stations on the Mid Anglia rail route between Beyond Soham church and steelyard, the route Ipswich, Bury St Edmunds, Cambridge and Ely provide is along part of the town’s millennium walks and useful gateways to the countryside of and East art trail, including the site of the explosion in 1944 . Visit when a truck of an ammunition train blew up. But for www.marpa.org.uk the bravery of three railwaymen it might have been and select Walks from the menu, then click on any of much worse… PLEASE FOLLOW THE the stations shown on the route diagram to see what The clear, reedy waters of Soham Lode skirt the walks are available for free download. COUNTRYSIDE CODE: former mere and, from its elevated bank-top path,  Be safe – plan ahead and follow any signs MARPA works to promote and protect services on the there are wide panoramas over the surrounding fens,  Ipswich to Cambridge/Peterborough rail route. Contact: with Ely cathedral (‘the ship of the fens’) ­dominating Leave gates and property as you find them The Secretary, 51 High Street, Cheveley, Newmarket  the view, an ever larger and more magnificent back- Protect plants and animals and take your CB8 9DQ. email: [email protected] drop to the Gt Ouse as the walk nears its end. litter home MARPA is affiliated to the campaigning group This is a continuation of the walk from Newmarket  Keep dogs under close control railfuture www.railfuture.org.uk to Soham and, until the campaign to re-open the  Consider other people The Ramblers protect rights of way and defend the station at Soham is successful, walkers will have to beauty of the countryside. Contact 020 7339 8500 make use of local bus 12 to reach the start. The information in this publication was, so far as known, www.ramblers.org.uk correct at the time of publication. The publishers accept Mid-Anglia Rail Passengers’ Association Walks no responsibility for any errors, omissions or changes in ©2019 Mid Anglia Rail Passengers’ ­Association (MARPA) Selected by Roger Wolfe, The Ramblers volunteer the information given. Map 12.1 Map 12.2

Map 12.3

THE STEELYARD AT SOHAM

SOHAM ART TRAIL - SITE OF PANORAMIC VIEWS AVAILABLE THE 1944 EXPLOSION FROM SOHAM LODE

Mid-Anglia Rail Passengers’ Association Walks SOHAM to ELY 6½ miles - 3-4 hours www.marpa.org.uk