The Wednesday Wanders
Walks around Cambridgeshire, Suffolk and Norfolk
Walk Name: Pymoor to The Hundred Foot
Walk Details
Starting Point: :Pymoor Village
Grid Reference: TL49638637
Parking: Side of road by Telephone book
Way Points: Hundred Foot, Pumping Station, Dunkirk
Distance: 7 miles
Time: 3h 30m
General Observation: This walk places along and through some of the best winter bird watching areas in East Anglia. During the autumn and winter expect to take longer as you stop to watch the flocks of Whooper and Bewick Swans as well as flights of Wigeon passing over head. From a landscape point of view there is little to see once you have come down from the Washes but it is worth scanning the fields for passing plovers, passerines and bird of prey.
A Furlong Drove does pass through areas were large flocks of swans feed so move with care and try not to disturb them too much.
Walk Description
Park at side of road by telephone box and walk back to the path leading to Oxlode fishing Lakes.
At the bank to The Hundred Foot you can either turn left along the bottom and walk along side of arable fields or climb to top of bank and turn right.
WARNING: on the last couple of visits there have been some very lively calves along this stretch of bank and we have had to drop down to the lower path due to them getting too interested!
View the Ouse Washes and bird watch as you walk to the Hundred Foot pumping station. Cross the road and walk along the river bank to Headfen Farm.
Turn Right. Keep to A Furlong Drove until you reach the road at Gravelhead Farm.
Turn Right. Road walk across bridge and take second waymarked track passing Dunkirk Farm. Keep along Frith Head Drove to the road.
Turn Left, cross road and take footpath keeping to the right of the yard. Look for blue containers. Footpath is through a gate next to the containers. It is not marked.
Follow track, passing glasshouses back to starting point.