Hemingford Abbots

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.

1.9 km E · Cambridgeshire

Topiary, lawns and old roses around England's oldest inhabited house, the cottage garden created by Green Knowe author Lucy Boston.

2.1 km NE

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.

2.9 km N · spans 5 counties

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

3 km N · Cambridgeshire

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

4.1 km NE

Reckoned the oldest surviving windmill in England, a weatherboarded open-trestle post mill of the 17th century on the hill west of Cambridge.

11.5 km S