Hilly Wood. Traditional Cache
Wombles2: This cache has been archived do to lack of visits last visit was in November 2012.
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This Cache is a medium sized lock & lock box with log book pencil miniature pack of cards & a small doll at time of placing. The track is very muddy & wet at the start, the rest of the track is as it would be at this time of the year.
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Helpston, Cycle through the Cambridgeshire woodlands and fields that inspired John Clare, one of the English countryside's most remarkable poets
John Clare (1793-1864) was born in Helpston to a poor labouring family, and had little education. His genius lay in passionately observing and recording the English countryside at a time when Enclosure Acts were gradually restricting public access to former open fields and common land. The poignancy of his poems reflects his sadness at being denied the freedom to explore the countryside he loved. This route takes in the village and cottage where Clare lived and the landscapes that inspired him, via bridleways and winding country lanes.
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Park in Helpston and admire the stone memorial to John Clare, which lies under ancient horse chestnut trees. Cycle down Woodgate. The white-washed cottage next to the Blue Bell Inn was formerly five dark, tiny dwellings. John Clare lived in the end nearest the pub and described it in My Early Home Was This: “The old house stooped just like a cave, Thatched o’er
with mosses green; Winter around the walls would rave, But all was calm within”.
The cottages have now been sympathetically restored into a museum and tea rooms by the John Clare Trust. Explore them and then, with Clare’s poetry in mind, cycle on and turn right down Broad Wheel Road.
Just before houses peter out to fields, turn left along a grassy bridleway, which follows the edge of a field next to Rice Wood. At a wooden signpost turn right, and cycle to reach King Street.
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Turn left here and cycle with Hilly Wood, one of Clare’s favourite walking areas, on your right. In a poem dedicated to the wood, Clare wrote: “How sweet to be thus nestling deep in boughs, Upon an ashen stoven pillowing me.” Turn right at the cross roads and follow Stamford Road into Ufford
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