Bedford Purlieus

Guillotine-gated locks and water meadows from Northampton to Peterborough, where the Nene slips out into the Fens.

3.2 km E · Northamptonshire & Cambridgeshire

Working farm and country centre near Peterborough built around a rare 18th-century watermill still in turning order.

3.8 km E

Preserved steam line running for miles along the Nene through Ferry Meadows into Peterborough, with a working museum yard.

5.3 km E

Rockingham Forest woodland near Corby with cycle and walking trails, a red-kite feeding history and a café in the old abbey grounds.

6.4 km W

Turreted Elizabethan prodigy house near Stamford.

6.5 km N

Riverside water-meadows below Stamford's spires, the classic view of the honey-stone town across the Welland.

7.6 km N