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Photo of Ely Cathedral, a cathedral in Cambridgeshire, eastern England.

Ely Cathedral© Richard Humphrey / Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0

Places to explore near Littleport StationLittleport

17 places within 10 km — the standouts first, nearest first within each group. 1 is a national icon.

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Worth the tripnational icons and local highlights within reach

Photo of Prickwillow Museum, a visitor attraction near Ely, Cambridgeshire, eastern England.Highlight

Prickwillow Museum

Attraction near Ely

A small fen-village museum of the great diesel and steam engines that pumped the Fens dry, run to thundering life on open days.

5.5 km S

Photo of Welney Wetland Centre, a nature reserve in Norfolk, eastern England.Highlight

Welney Wetland Centre

Nature reserve near Welney

WWT reserve on the Ouse Washes where thousands of Bewick's and whooper swans gather to be floodlit-fed on winter evenings.

7.5 km N

Photo of Ely Cathedral, a cathedral in Cambridgeshire, eastern England.Iconic

Ely Cathedral

Cathedral near Ely

Great lantern tower riding above the flat Fens.

8 km SW

Photo of Ely, a village in Cambridgeshire, eastern England.Highlight

Ely

Village

Small cathedral city on an Isle above the Fens, its Ship of the Fens towering over riverside walks, a market and Cromwell's old house.

8 km SW · Cambridgeshire

Photo of Oliver Cromwell's House, a house near Ely, Cambridgeshire, eastern England.Highlight

Oliver Cromwell's House

House near Ely

The timber-framed Ely home where Cromwell lived while collecting fen tithes, now a museum of his life and the Civil War.

8.1 km SW

Also nearbygood places nearby, nearest first

Photo along the Fen Rivers Way, a 50-mile long-distance path running from Cambridge to King's Lynn, eastern England.

Fen Rivers Way

Long-distance path

Cambridge to King's Lynn beside the Cam and the Great Ouse, dead level across the Fens under a blue eel waymark.

0.1 km SE · Cambridgeshire & Norfolk

Photo along the Ouse Valley Way, a 150-mile long-distance path running from Syresham to King's Lynn, England.

Ouse Valley Way

Long-distance path

The Great Ouse walked source to sea — from a pub garden at Syresham to the old quay at King's Lynn, 150 miles across five counties.

0.1 km SE · spans 5 counties

Photo of the River Great Ouse, a river navigation running from Bedford to Denver Sluice, eastern England.

River Great Ouse

River navigation

The great slow river of the Fens, navigable from Bedford through Ely's cathedral skyline to Denver Sluice.

0.2 km E · Cambridgeshire, Bedfordshire & Norfolk

Photo of the River Lark, a river navigation running from Ely Ouse junction to Jude's Ferry, eastern England.

River Lark

River navigation

A chalk-fed fen tributary of the Great Ouse, navigable through Prickwillow's black fields to Jude's Ferry.

3 km S · Cambridgeshire & Suffolk

Photo of the Little Ouse River, a river navigation running from Brandon Creek to Brandon, eastern England.

Little Ouse River

River navigation

The Brandon river — a Breckland stream turned fen navigation, joining the Great Ouse at Brandon Creek.

4.7 km NE · Norfolk, Suffolk & Cambridgeshire

Photo of Ouse Washes, a Site of Special Scientific Interest near Welney, Cambridgeshire, eastern England.

Ouse Washes

SSSI near Welney

A Site of Special Scientific Interest in Cambridgeshire.

6.4 km NW

Photo of The Cutter Inn, a pub near Ely, Cambridgeshire, eastern England.

The Cutter Inn

Pub near Ely

Busy riverside inn below Ely's cathedral, popular with boaters for hearty pub food and a terrace over the Great Ouse.

8.3 km SW

Everything else within 10 km (5) — reserves, earthworks & places to check before travelling

Ordered by how far each place is worth travelling for, then by distance. Distances are straight-line to the nearest edge of each place — paths wind, of course.