Month: June 2022

Pictures by Jonathan Bridgland and “commentary” (for want of a better word) by Sir Hardly Anyone.  Owing to the absence of any Committee Members to edit this piece it must be said that it may not reflect the opinions of Peterborough Ramblers, its committee, its members or indeed the...

Thu 21 Jul        Thursday Walkers       Peterborough Milton Golf Club Evening Walk Please note that there are changes to the previously published details for the Peterborough Ramblers Fish and Chip Night on Thursday 21st July.  There are different joining arrangements depending on whether or not you are walking before the supper. For those walking...

By Jane Hogg On our Pickworth / Clipsham walk today we walked on well maintained paths. Then we observed this lady wizzing along on her mower on a parallel path. We stopped and chatted to her, so found out that she’s the Footpath Officer for Rutland County Council. She...

Photographs from Jackie Markley, commentary Tony Attwood If ever there was a walk that showed the contrasts of the countryside around us surely it is this one.  Described on one website as “the land where time has stood still” the Barrowden viaduct (designed by William Henry Barlow) had work...

This week, our photographic record of the walk comes complete with questions.   A set of answers is to be found below but they are jumbled up.  Can you put the right question with the wrong answer? Question zero: Where is the cheese? Question 1: How many cows are in...

Editor’s note: Apologies for the delay in publishing this article.  I’d love to blame the technology but it was almost certainly entirely my fault. ——– By Muddy Boots I have always thought Ramsey (pop. approx. 9,000), sitting on the edge of the fens, to be a fairly unprepossessing little...