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The River Cam and Constable Country

This glorious drive begins only 103 km (64 miles) from central London

but the places it visits are surprisingly rural, with a flavour and colour

that is distinctly local. It traces a route from the venerable university

architecture of Cambridgeshire through the unspoiled village greens of

Essex to the fertile countryside of the Stour Valley and Dedham Vale, just

straying across the border into Suffolk. Here are opportunities to explore a

landscape of timeless beauty, immortalized by some of Britain’s greatest

artists. In this part of East Anglia, history is everywhere present in the

ancient market towns, the villages whose cottages – many half-timbered,

thatched and washed prettily in pink – seem almost to

have sprung from the earth.

BACK ROADS GREAT BRITAIN

ACTIVITIES

Go punting on the River Cam under the Bridge of Sighs

and along the glorious Cambridge Backs

Take tea at “ten to three” at the pretty village of

Grantchester, made famous by poet Rupert Brooke

Take your own snap of the village green in Finchingfield,

supposedly the most photographed in England

Cross the moat bridge to look around historic Hedingham

Castle and maybe watch a joust of two

Take a river cruise beside the lush meadows at Sudbury

Step into a gorgeous Constable painting by the House

on Water Lane, Stratford St Mary

Walk along the banks of the Stour at East Bergholt

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Below View across the mill pond on the River

Cam, Grantchester, see p113

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