First… coronavirus

Government advice

Featured places to go

• Hemingford Grey (above) – The Manor, made famous by the Green Knowe books.
• Long Melford – Kentwell Hall.
• Stowmarket – Helmingham Hall Gardens.

Local places to go

• Bedford – Arts and culture / Bedford Borough Council.
• Bedford and beyond – Visit Bedford.
• Bedfordshire – The Best of Bedford.

• Cambridge – Cambridge events / Google search.
• Cambridge – Cambridge events / Skiddle.
• Cambridge – Cambridge Live.
• Cambridge – Events in Cambridge / The List.
• Cambridge – Things to do in Cambridge / Eventbrite.
• Cambridge – University of Cambridge / public events.
• Cambridge – Visit Cambridge.
• Cambridgeshire – Best things to do / Day Out With The Kids.
• Cambridgeshire – Best places to go / Let’s Go With The Children.

• Anglesey Abbey.
• Duxford Imperial War Museum.
• English Heritage – places near Hatley.
• Historic Houses – places near Hatley.
• National Trust – other places near Hatley.
• RSPB, Sandy Lodge
• Shuttleworth Collection – the old planes at Old Warden and…
• … the Swiss Garden.
• Wimpole Hall.

National places to go

• Antique fairs – International Antiques & Collectors Fairs.
• Antique fairs – Antiques Atlas.
• Gardens – British Red Cross.
• Gardens – National Gardens Scheme.
• Gardens – Open Gardens directory.

• English Heritage.
• Historic Houses.
• National Trust.
• National Trust for Scotland (less expensive to join than the NT – includes free entry into NT properties + excellent talks in Cambridge).
• RSPB – find a nature reserve.
• Where can we go? – you can search for events in each county as well as by village, town or post code.
• Wildlife Trust – find a nature reserve.

Getting there

• Traffic England – up-to-date traffic information.

Worth supporting

• Friends of Friendless Churches.
• Ancient Monuments Society – it also has an excellent ‘links’ page listing many other national amenity societies.

And… finally

If you spot any broken links or have suggestions for links we should add, please do say by e-mailing Nicola Pearce, Parish Clerk, and letting her know.

• ‘This sceptred isle’?  It’s from Shakespeare’s Richard II – here’s the whole speech.

_{Page checked / updated 8th October 2021.}