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

Prickwillow Museum© Jonathan Thacker / Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0

Places to explore near Shippea Hill StationShippea Hill

20 places within 10 km — the standouts first, nearest first within each group.

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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.

4.7 km W

Also nearbygood places nearby, nearest first

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.

2.9 km NE · Norfolk, Suffolk & Cambridgeshire

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.

3.4 km SW · Cambridgeshire & Suffolk

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.

6.8 km W · 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.

6.8 km W · 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.

6.8 km W · Cambridgeshire, Bedfordshire & Norfolk

Isleham

Village

Fen-edge village near the Suffolk border with a Norman priory chapel and a large medieval church, between Ely and Newmarket.

8.4 km S · Cambridgeshire

Isleham priory

Priory · Benedictine near Isleham

Isleham priory: an alien Benedictine priory 100m west of St Andrew's Church

9.6 km S

Everything else within 10 km (12) — 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.