Buckden

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.

2 km E · spans 5 counties

Vanbrugh-remodelled mansion, now a school, where Catherine of Aragon spent her final captivity; open on selected days.

9.2 km W

Georgian high street curving below Kimbolton Castle, where Catherine of Aragon spent her last unhappy years.

9.2 km W · Cambridgeshire

Picture-book Ouse-valley village of thatched cottages gathered around a green, with a National Trust watermill on the river.

10 km E · Cambridgeshire

Riverside village on the Great Ouse with a moated 12th-century manor, the oldest inhabited house in England, and a church that lost its spire to a storm.

10.3 km E · Cambridgeshire

A rare survival, one of only a handful of medieval bridges in England still carrying a stone chapel, spanning the Great Ouse.

12.3 km E