Book 3 Updates

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New route over New Bridge over the A14 at Lolworth. Pages 3 and 4.

As part of a huge upgrade to this part of the A14, there is a new bridge over the A14 connecting the village of Lolworth to a new side road that runs parallel to the A14. This enables us to change the route of the GMT which will avoid the tedious and just a little dangerous road walking between Boxworth and the Cambridge Services and shorten to some extent the amount of road walking into Swavesy.
The new route directions have been incorporated into the latest print version of the guidebook and if you have not already walked this section then find the new route directions below. Overall it is a more pleasant and safer route. The new route has now been way marked.

Page 3: line 8 - The new directions now read -

It has a post box, a telephone box that is now Lolworth book exchange and has won awards for being the best kept village. At the centre, keep ahead and walk out of the village. Soon you will see the stream of traffic ahead on the A14.

Page 4 - down to Swavesy information box. The new directions now read -

Follow the pavement, cross the A14 and curve left down to the junction where you turn right along the side road completed in 2020 as part of a massive reconfiguration of this part of the A14. After 600m, turn right along Utton's Drove, pass smelly sewage works on the left and keep on for just under 1km where you turn left along Tippler's Road. At the end, turn right onto the far less peaceful road into Swavesy. The slightly tedious walk to the centre can be mitigated by the purchase of an ice cream at the handy Boxworth End village store and a brief diversion along Ramper Road to view the very discreet Meridian Marker a few yards along the road on the left. Look out for the Baptist Chapels on either side of the road, soon afterwards.

Page 7 - Bluntisham Bypass route by David Geyde.

 This route is marked blue on the map below.  As you join Station Road, having walked up from Brownshill Staunch, don't go right as the way marks suggest but turn left.  A short distance down the road is a safe point to cross the road onto the path/cycleway that leads out of Bluntisham.  The path leaves the road as it skirts the old railway bridge. Half way round there is an opening that leads onto a public footpath that runs up the edge of the field .  Follow the path up the gentle slope.  As you proceed up the path the water towers will come into view as does the meridian oak tree planted on the meridian line by a person unknown and date unknown.  The oak tree becomes more apparent as you progress up the path.  Turn left along the fenced path which takes you past the oak tree and the Meridian Markers erected in 2023. Continue along the path and you come to where you turn right to walk up through Meridian Wood.  But before you do, spend a moment telling the time on the human sundial (hope it is a sunny day) installed as a millennium feature in the wood which was planted in December 2000 as the village's millennium project .  Enjoy the path through the wood.  Arrive at the wood’s roadside entrance where a new path connecting the wood to the village has been put along the adjacent house in Meridian Close.  The path brings you onto the Woodend Road leading back into the village .  You can cross safely to the path on the other side of the road and proceed downhill into the village.  At the junction of Woodend / Short Lane and High Street you may either continue down Short Lane to turn left onto Colne Road and continue on to Somersham, or detour right down the High Street where you will come to the Barograph .  Stop a moment and observe the longitude and latitude references on the inside of the roof before turning left into the footpath, re-joining the GMT.

Somersham Quarry Restoration

Roy Fabb has provided us with a plan of all the work that has gone into restoring the land north of Somersham after quarrying ended in 2008. The route of the GMT through the old quarries can be found on page 11. The map below shows the full extent of the ambitious restoration. The GMT enters at the blue arrows top and bottom.

Last updated October 2023