Houghton (Houghton)

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Houghton is an Ouse-valley village of thatched cottages around a small green, with a large working watermill on the river run by the National Trust. It grinds flour on open days and sits on the riverside path that runs down to St Ives.

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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.

0.1 km N · spans 5 counties

The Manor Garden, Hemingford Grey

Garden near Hemingford Grey

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

1.3 km S

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St Ives Bridge Chapel

Landmark near St Ives (St Ives)

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

2.8 km E

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Hemingford Grey

Village

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.

2.9 km S · Cambridgeshire

Hinchingbrooke Country Park

Country park near Godmanchester

A country park in Cambridgeshire.

6 km W

Ouse Washes

SSSI near Welney

A Site of Special Scientific Interest in Cambridgeshire.

10.9 km E