This page is dedicated to letting you know of good riding and bridleways that are in the local area.
Check out the information on the bridleway below!
This site is brand new so its just in the beginnings of gathering all of the local information. If you want to contribute please do as this would be very useful!If you know of any more good bridleways let me know and I'll get them up here asap!
A useful little byway linking the village of Impington to Landbeach. Useful to make a circular between Cottenham, Landbeach and Histon, if you don't mind a bit of road work in the middle! The byway runs through a fruit farm and provides a lovely long stretch of open grassy track between the two villages. The road it joins in Landbeach is nice and quiet, but watch the road on the Impington side as it's close to the A10 and near the Milton Park and Ride. Drivers were quite courteous though so don't be put off, and just down the road (towards Impington) there's a permissive bridleway - check out the Defra website for a map of that.
From Impington, head towards the A10 on the Milton Road, the byway is on your left before your get to the Park and Ride site, and has the fruit farm on either side of you.
From Landbeach, from the cross roads in the centre of the village, take Cock Fen Lane which turns into Akemen Street, carry on straight when the road runs out, there's a set of double gates and a gap to fit through for horses.
Happy riding!
Croyden & East Hatley. The area South West of Cambridge beyond the A1198 opens out to provide countryside impressively littered with bridleways.
Starting out from Croyden, a short stretch of road work through the village to cross Larkins Road puts you at the base of a following 3 miles off road work. The bridleway follows the Clopton Way where you'll pass through the site of a medieval village. There are a few gates around this section but they're reasonably easy to open and close.
Follow the bridleyway Northwards and it will take you up past a few alpacas which are in a field just behind a rather good windbreak of a hedge. Keep hold of your horse if they've not seen any as they're curious creatures! From here up to Hatley, the path follows the edges of the field winding around a few trees and up towards Buff Woods. You can navigate either in front or around the woods, either way will take you back to the main road of the village
In the fields East of Hatley houses a good few bridleways snaking in and out of the fields which are rolling and quiet to follow, and well worth it for a nice peaceful hack. I saw one other person enjoying their horse and the open space by having a few relaxed canters over the soft ground and quiet surroundings.
Unfortunatetly, these bridleways aren't on the Cambridge OS map (1:50,000) so you'll need to get the next one along (number 143) which is titled Milten Keynes and Bedfordshire. However, it's well worth it as it also covers Bourn, Cambourne and the nature reserve of Fen Drayton, of which there looks to be a few more interesting bridlways scattered around.
My exploration covered just over 8 miles and there was plenty more to keep me busy if I'd so needed! I was really impressed with the amount of off road access there is and the quality of the tracks that you get to follow. Like previous weeks, the ground is currently quite wet so watch out for slippy and slightly muddy areas, but the majority of it was in really good shape from being a mixture of elevated fields and tracks.
My only advice for these multiple bridleways to is keep an eye on the time as you'll find plenty of places to go and not enough daylight to do it in!
(Sorry I haven't got any photos for these sections, it was quite a dull day and I couldn't do it justice!)
Kingston & New Farm, Wimpole.
As part of the Harcamlow Way, this neat little bridleway runs From Kingston and above the Wimpole National Trust estate land. The section running between Kingston and heading South of Eversden Wood provides about 2 and a half miles of off road riding (with the exception of 200 metres on a very quiet road!).
Mid January, the ground is a little slippy and muddy in places across the fields, but some of the track has a forgiving hardcore surface.
The track directly out of Kingston (heading South) is reasonably narrow in places where some larger horses may have be single file, but being surrounded by hedgerows might help comfort some of those horses that find big open fields just a bit too exciting!
There is the option to drop down to either Great or Little Eversden both on good solid tracks that would provide a good long trot if you were to head in the opposite direction of up and out of the villages (Yes thats right, you have to go up a hill!). The roads through the villages seem quiet enough to hack between each section of the bridleway, although there are a few blind corners so take care.
The majority of the track provides views that stretch North East over Cambridge, or alternatively you can look South West over the Wimpole Estate.
By linking the bridleways between Little and Great Eversden and Kingston, you can create a route of just under 9 miles with minimal road work which is a considerable distance if you're just out for a Sunday hack!
So, go a grab yourself an O.S map of Cambridge and have an explore by the Eversdens!(sorry I've not got a GoogleMap link in here yet)
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