Harrold-Odell Country Park

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.

here · spans 5 counties

Riverside village west of Bedford known for its picturesque Ouse bridge, green with a round lock-up, and adjoining country park.

1 km W · Bedfordshire

The only complete windmill left in Bedfordshire, an eighteenth-century post mill on the ridge above Stevington, restored for the Festival of Britain.

5.3 km SE

Two small period gardens behind the poet Cowper's Olney house, a summer flower garden and a restored kitchen garden.

9.1 km SW

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

10.3 km NW · Northamptonshire & Cambridgeshire

Gatehouse, chapel and walls of a priests' college founded in the 1420s by Henry Chichele, the Higham Ferrers man who became Archbishop of Canterbury.

11.6 km N