Felmersham

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Felmersham’s great draw is its church: St Mary’s, a cathedral-like Early English building of the 1220s standing over the Great Ouse. The stone village around it runs down to the river, where old gravel pits are now a nature reserve good for birds. It is a quiet spot, with the nearest station, Bedford, a fair way off to the south-east.

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Ouse Valley Way

Long-distance path

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.

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