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Category Archives: Fen Landscape
Fen Landscape – Rampton
Two photographs from a walk at Rampton in 23rd May 2022.
Roads
Wednesday to Thursday: the twists and ups and downs of the roads around Cheltenham. Saturday: winding through Grantchester, Barton, Comberton, Toft, Bourne and Longstowe (to see bluebells and oxlips in Hayley Woods). Sunday: back on the familiar fen straights.
Fen Landscape – Quy Fen
Quy Fen, Friday 18th March – first chiffchaff, Phyllaoscopus collybita, of spring.
Fen Landscape – Broad Lane, Cottenham
Four photographs along Broad Lane, Cottenham, on a late afternoon walk, 29th January 2022.
Fen Landscape – Rampton
Cow Lane, Rampton, Sunday 19th December, shortly after photographing the sheep posted on the 20th.
Fen Landscape – Cottenham
Sheep have been grazing on land east of the Cottenham Race Course for several months. No grass here – they seem now to be surviving on some kind of break or cover crop. (And no seasonal shepherds watching the flock.) … Continue reading
Fen Landscape – Swavesey
With the walking group at Swavesey, Wednesday 1st December 2021. Parked in Market Street and headed NW out of the village, across the Guided Busway and along the bank between the Lagoon and Swavesey Lake. Strong cold wind from the … Continue reading
Fen Landscape – Cottenham
Fen drain, North Fen, Cottenham. Perhaps we should think of them as veins, not drains.
Fen Landscape – Cottenham
Another September evening on North Fen, Cottenham.
Fen Landscape – Reach
Reach, Wednesday. Parked in the village, climbed up onto the Devil’s Dyke and walked south-east between hedges rich with autumnal fruits, hips, haws, sloes and blackberries. Just before the line of the old railway we dropped down to the right … Continue reading
Fen Landscape – All Saints Cottenham
The low sun picks out the tower of All Saints, Cottenham, against an approaching stormy sky. Pevsner writes: ‘The one feature one remembers about Cottenham church is the tower with its odd stepped battlements and bulbous ogee pinnacles. It is … Continue reading
Fen Landscape – Cottenham
Sun setting over North Fen, Cottenham, mid-August 2021.
Fen Landscape – Cottenham
Low evening sun illuminates trees in bold relief against an approaching leaden sky. Edge of Cottenham, August 2021.
Fen Landacape – North Fen, Cottenham
It’s too easy to focus on the scale and drama of the skies in the Fens. It’s important to look to the land for the features that help to define this extraordinary landscape.
Fen Landscape – Rampton
Late afternoon walk out along Cow Lane yesterday. A dozen young bullocks at a water trough. Pheasants running for cover. Ripening blackberries. An uncut field of a mysterious grass-like crop. Joggers and cyclists; and cars raising dust along the newly … Continue reading