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St Ives (Cambs)

Country Walks

Status:Active, open to new members
Group admin: Country Walks group
When: On Wednesday mornings
Monthly 4th Wednesday
Cost: None
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Status: Open to new walkers for walks up to 7+ miles. No need to book just turn up on the walk morning.
Leader: Gill Jones
When: We walk on the fourth Wednesday of the month starting at 9.30 am.
Cost: None and we make occasional use of the Guided bus and share lifts whenever possible.

Please see photos from our latest walk.

Country Walks members 16 in all visited the Giddings on Wednesday 23rd September. Starting with Little Gidding immortalised by T S Eliot in his poem Quartet we spent some time in the small intriguing church of St John learning a little bit about the history of Nicholas Ferrer and the 17th century religious community he established there.
Setting off down through the glorious sweeping pastoral meadow in front of the church we began our walk taking in Great Gidding then off along the Bullock path Milking Slade Lane across country arriving back to Steeple Gidding with its now redundant church then back to our starting point in Little Gidding.

This really is a beautiful landscape to walk with plenty of local interest. I hope you enjoy the photographs.

Note that we currently have three walking groups:

  • Country Walks - 6 or 7 miles every 4th Wednesday of the month
  • Leisure Walks - 2-3 miles on the 1st & 3rd Wednesdays of the month
  • Strollers - about 1 mile on the 2nd and 4th Mondays of the month