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Balsham Wood

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Balsham Wood is a Site of Special Scientific Interest in Cambridgeshire, covering 0.35 km². It is one of 89 Sites of Special Scientific Interest in the county. The nearest railway station is Dullingham, about 9.1 km to the north. For more of the same, Great Wilbraham Common and Gog Magog Golf Course are close by.

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Photo along the Icknield Way Path, a 110-mile long-distance path running from Ivinghoe Beacon to Knettishall Heath, England.

Icknield Way Path

Long-distance path

The missing middle of the 'oldest road in Britain', linking the Ridgeway at Ivinghoe Beacon to the Peddars Way at Knettishall Heath.

0.5 km W · spans 7 counties

Photo of Bartlow Hills, a landmark near Linton, Cambridgeshire, eastern England.Highlight

Bartlow Hills

Landmark near Linton

The largest Roman burial mounds in northern Europe, a cluster of grassy cones hidden in trees at tiny Bartlow near the Essex border.

4.8 km S

Photo of Fleam Dyke, a landmark near Fen Ditton, Cambridgeshire, eastern England.Highlight

Fleam Dyke

Landmark near Fen Ditton

A second great Anglo-Saxon defensive bank crossing the chalk near Fulbourn, a chalk-grassland ridge walk rich in wildflowers.

7.2 km NW

Photo of Wandlebury Country Park, a country park near Grantchester, Cambridgeshire, eastern England.

Wandlebury Country Park

Country park near Grantchester

A country park in Cambridgeshire.

9.2 km NW

Photo of Duxford Chapel, a ruined chapel near Linton, Cambridgeshire, eastern England.

Duxford Chapel

Chapel near Linton

Small, intact chantry chapel of the 1300s beside Whittlesford Parkway station, which may first have belonged to a medieval hospital.

10.4 km W

Photo of Saffron Walden, a village in Essex, eastern England.Highlight

Saffron Walden

Village

A medieval market town of pargeted houses and a maze on the common, named for the saffron crocus once grown here and crowned by the largest church in Essex.

12.3 km SW · Essex