Pymoor - Footpaths

The sketch map shows a number of tracks around the village which are pleasant to walk on summer afternoons.  The photograph here is taken from one which is not a public right of way (so not shown on the sketch map).  The path is also rarely used by tractors and other farm machinery, so is much more grassy and lacks the usual heavy rutting.

Once the path was shown on maps as a public right of way.  However, this was an error and the more recent Definite Map shows it moved to the north.  Although the land owner did allow local people use the path thay have now had to stop everybody using this footpath because there has been damage to the crops by dogs.

It is unusual because the hedge that runs beside some of its length has large mature trees in it.  (A view of these can been seen in the photograph of the onion harvest (53k).)  In fact, having any kind of hedge bordering a field is unusual.  Most fields are instead divided by drainage dykes.  So to have mature trees as well, is a special feature of this path.

On the horizon at the right of the picture, taken in September 1998, Ely Cathedral can just be seen.  The belt of trees across the rest of the horion is the northern part of Pygore Drove.

Apart from this local path, a major long distance path skirts east the village.  This is known as the Herward Way (21k) and more details are given on a separate page.

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