DISCOVER THE TOWNS BETWEEN CAMBRIDGE AND NORWICH

Comfortable, modern trains link Cambridge and Norwich up to hourly seven days a week, the ideal opportunity to see flat fertile fen, majestic forest or primrose clad cutting. Between Ely and Norwich there are some pleasant destinations to visit too.

ATTLEBOROUGH

(busy day Thursday)

Relaxing Queens Square is the centre of this small town, once famous for its cider works and Christmas turkey sales.

www.enjoyengland.com/destinations/find/east-of-england/norfolk/attleborough.aspx

BRANDON

(market day Thursday)

Enjoy the Little Ouse river by boat or riverside walk in this town of many flint buildings.

www.brandonsuffolk.com

FOREST WALK

For a completely different experience enjoy a walk through the forest from Brandon to Thetford along St. Edmunds Way, through Santon Downham.

Ordnance Survey Landranger sheet 144 or the more detailed Ordnance Survey Explorer sheet 229.

MID NORFOLK RAILWAY

Travel by heritage train through the pretty countryside from Wymondham Abbey to Dereham. Please check dates and times.

www.mnr.org.uk

RSPB LAKENHEATH FEN RESERVE

Please check times of weekend-only trains.

The reserve is a mixture of wetland and woodland next to Lakenheath station, where marsh harriers, hobbies, bearded tits, lapwings, redshanks and reed warblers abound. And bitterns boom again.

www.rspb.org.uk

THETFORD

(market days Tuesday and Saturday)

Discover Dad’s Army, Thomas Paine, Prince Duleep Singh and a secret garden

www.explorethetford.co.uk

WYMONDHAM

(market day Friday)

Drop in on the Abbey, Bridewell Heritage Museum, market cross and, of course, the beautifully restored railway station.

www.tournorfolk.co.uk/wymondham.html