Places to explore near Waterbeach StationWaterbeach

Jacobean house with famous winter garden walk.

4 km SE

Last fragment of ancient undrained fenland.

6.3 km NE

Fen-edge village famous for two medieval churches sharing one churchyard, with a pair of restored windmills on the hill above.

6.9 km E · Cambridgeshire

A vast Anglo-Saxon earthwork running dead straight for seven miles from the fen at Reach to the wooded chalk, walkable along its crest.

7.1 km E

A Cambridge college of 1511 spanning the Cam by the covered Gothic Bridge of Sighs.

8.2 km SW

A preserved 1831 steam beam-engine and its tall chimney beside the Old West River, once scooping fen water up to the drain.

8.2 km N

Soaring fan-vaulted Gothic seen over the Backs.

8.6 km SW

Founded in 1846 by Darwin's teacher, forty acres of beds and glasshouses.

9 km SW

The Backs, the boathouses and the fen reaches below — Cambridge's river, navigable down to its meeting with the Great Ouse.

0.3 km SE · Cambridgeshire

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

0.4 km SE · Cambridgeshire & Norfolk

A country park in Cambridgeshire.

3.1 km SW

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

6.4 km N · Cambridgeshire, Bedfordshire & Norfolk

Spacious, lofty church east of Cambridge, largely 13th and 14th century, with an unusual stone rood screen and west porch.

6.4 km SE

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.

6.5 km N · spans 5 counties