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Click to visit The Carpenters’ Arms website, where you’ll find the Wellington Boot Wander MAP & ROUTE
put together a fantastic 5.5-mile Wellington Boot Wander that begins and ends at its door. At this time of year (Great British summer-dependent) you might even be able to enjoy the route sans wellies! From the pub, follow the road right to the bend and through Frog End, away from the village, keeping an eye out for a sign and white fence on the right, where there’s a footpath leading away from the road. Follow this path and, after passing through a kissing gate, you’ll arrive at Great Wilbraham Common. A site of special scientific interest, this species-rich grassland is one of the largest such areas
in Cambridgeshire, and a real treasure of the community. Here, you can immerse yourself in nature – the common is home to such rare species as purple milk-vetch, meadow saxifrage and green-winged orchid, plus a host of other flora and fauna. (Do watch out for grazing cattle, too!) Moving on through the rural landscape, along farm track, field, path and lane, a level crossing marks your approach to the next point of interest: Fulbourn, with its parish church of St Vigor’s with All Saints, parts of it dating back to the 13th and 14th centuries, and war memorial of Aberdeen granite on the village green.
As it completes its loop, the route
continues to wend its way through Cambridgeshire countryside, passing by the Fulbourn Fen Nature Reserve and the foot of Fleam Dyke, the remains of an Anglo-Saxon linear earthwork constructed between the 4th and 5th centuries, before the tower of Great Wilbraham’s own
SERVING UP SUMMER The spacious Carpenters Arms (above) will meet all your post-walk cravings
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