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 arrows, you won’t have Marpa to turn the map around to fit the landscape. STATION TO STATION WALKS 9 TIME DULLINGHAM to FULBOURN Allow about 6-7 hours, but add on time for refreshments, visit- 12½ miles - 6-7 hours ing nature reserves and churches. MAPS OS Explorer sheets 210 Newmarket and Haverhill and 209 Cambridge. REFRESHMENTS
Pubs in Dullingham, Burrough Green, Brinkley (just off route) and Fulbourn, where there are also shops. USEFUL INFORMATION National Rail Enquiries www.nationalrail.co.uk 08457 48 49 50 Traveline www.traveline.info 0871 200 22 33 Fulbourn Fen www.wildlifebcnp.org/reserves/ WALKS IN THIS SERIES 1 Ipswich to Needham Market 2 Needham Market to Stowmarket MUTLOW HILL TUMULUS 3 Stowmarket to Elmswell 4 Elmswell to Thurston Closure of intermediate stations at Six Mile Bottom 5 Thurston to Bury St Edmunds and Fulbourn has left a long trek for walkers heading 6 Kennett to Bury St Edmunds for Cambridge, but use can be made of bus Citi 1 7 Kennett to Newmarket (every 20 mins Mon-Sat.) to break the walk at Ful- 8 Newmarket to Dullingham bourn. 9 Dullingham to Fulbourn Much of this walk follows part of the Icknield Way 10 Fulbourn to Cambridge 11 Newmarket to Soham Path, a recreational long distance route linking the PLEASE FOLLOW THE 12 Soham to Ely Ridgeway national trail at Ivinghoe Beacon with the COUNTRYSIDE CODE: 13 Dullingham to Kennett Peddars Way national trail through Norfolk. Impres- Be safe – plan ahead and follow any signs MARPA works to promote and protect services on the sive Fleam Dyke also forms part of the route, one Ipswich to Cambridge/Peterborough rail route. Contact: The Leave gates and property as you find them of a series of early Anglo Saxon barriers controlling Secretary, 51 High Street, Cheveley, Newmarket CB8 9DQ. the approach to East Anglia from the SW. The Dyke Protect plants and animals and take your email: [email protected] is of great archaeological and botanical interest, as litter home MARPA is affiliated to the campaigning group railfuture www.railfuture.org.uk explained by an information board near Mutlow Hill Keep dogs under close control tumulus. Near the end of the walk Fulbourn Fen Ramblers’ Association Protects rights of way and defends Consider other people the beauty of the countryside. Active local groups are based Nature Reserve provides a contrasting (sometimes in all the towns along the mid-Anglia line and welcome new boggy!) habitat. The information in this publication was, so far as known, members. www.ramblers.org.uk 020 7339 8500 correct at the time of publication. The publishers accept Published 2010 by the Mid Anglia Rail Passengers’ Mid-Anglia Rail Passengers’Association Walks no responsibility for any errors, omissions or changes in Association (MARPA) in conjunction with Suffolk Area of the Selected by Roger Wolfe, Ramblers’ Association volunteer the information given. Ramblers’ Association. Map 9.2 Map 9.3 Map 9.6
BURROUGH GREEN SCHOOL Map 9.1
ON THE ICKNIELD WAY PATH FLEAM DYKE Map 9.4 Map 9.5
Mid-Anglia Rail Passengers’ Association Walks DULLINGHAM to FULBOURN 12½ miles - 6-7 hours www.marpa.org.uk