There are no upcoming events at this time. Here another path next to a ditch joins the Stour Valley Path. Black and White picture - Major G Allen, 1934, (© The Ashmolean Museum, Oxford). It is well worth a short departure from the Ditch path to follow the old track to the left, where mullein, fennel and thyme are among the many wild flowers growing here. Along this section a dense plantation of larch and firs borders the right bank with Stetchworth Park and stud paddocks to the left. The trail offers a number of activity options. (Site of Unlike much of the agricultural land around it has not been 'improved' with fertilizers or pesticides with the result that for at least some of its length a natural balance of plants and trees has been achieved over the centuries. This section is also rich in typical chalk grassland wild flowers and butterflies, seen along the edges of the path and on the steep grassy banks. During 2003 the main work has been on the section between the Burwell Road and the A 41. The banks possibly supported timber palisades, making the monument a formidable obstacle across the line of the Icknield Way and controlling the movement of people and animals. To the left the July course runs parallel with

From the footbridge road crossing we look down on the unceasing streams of traffic travelling between East Anglia and the Midlands. These ditch systems appear to have defined territories related to hill-forts, such as Ravensburgh Castle, Wilbury Hill and Arbury Banks.

The primary silt of the western ditch of the three Mile Ditches has been dated to the second century BC.

Post was not sent - check your email addresses! A convenient car park for walkers has been provided near the B1102 crossing, but be sure to lock your car and remove any valuables!Now comes a short open stretch leading to the old Cambridge-Mildenhall railway cutting and this part of the Ditch is also well endowed with wild flowers despite some serious invasion by hawthorn scrub.

bank are carpeted with bluebells in May, patches of primroses and cowslips grow along the shady pathside in spring and the beautiful violet-blue pendulous blooms of clustered and nettle-leaved bellflowers adorn the edges in summer. Looking to the right through the trees and tangled sinewy stems of old man's beard, one can catch occasional glimpses of Wood Ditton Church. General view of the Mile Ditches excavation, 5 March 1978 (photograph G R Burleigh © NHDC), S Bryant & G Burleigh 1995 ‘Later prehistoric dykes of the eastern Chilterns’, G Burleigh 1995 ‘A late Iron Age oppidum at Baldock, Hertfordshire’, (both the above papers are in R Holgate, see below), G Burleigh 1980 ‘The Mile Ditches, near Royston: Excavations, 1978’ in Hertfordshire’s Past no.8, O G S Crawford 1936 ‘Field Archaeology of the Royston District’ in Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society vol. This shady path is much favoured by speckled wood butterflies that can be seen flitting in and out of the shadows in spring and summer. Let us hope that future generations continue to value this wonderful legacy from the past. Back on the Ditch we start on the final stretch and looking left one has good views of the windmill and the two adjacent church towers at Swaffham Prior. 1973 as work commenced on the A14. During 2003 the main work was on the section between the Burwell Road and the A 41. An extensive scrub clearance project commenced in the summer of 2002 along the section by the July Racecourse owned by the Jockey Club, under a partnership with the club, the Cambridgeshire County Council, the Wildlife Trust, English Nature and English Heritage. This part of the Ditch, bordering the heathland, is also the haunt of skylarks, yellow hammers, linnets and meadow pipits. Soon the path winds through a group of twisted old pines before this mile long stretch of the Ditch ends with the crossing of the Newmarket to Cambridge/London road, still busy despite through traffic using the Newmarket by-pass further to the north. The Mile Ditches were one of a series of such Iron Age ditch systems lying across the Icknield Belt between Luton and Royston.

The Mile Ditches, 8 March 1978, looking north-west (photograph G R Burleigh © NHDC).

Newmarket Racecourse's new Millennium Grandstand shows up white in the distance. Soon after the start the walker climbs up to the highest section of the embankment and can look down to the fosse (ditch), some 40 feet below. After half a mile the path runs through dense box and snowberry shrubs then becomes more open, with wild geraniums growing on the bank. Soon the path winds through a group of twisted old pines before this mile long stretch of the Ditch ends with the crossing of the Newmarket to Cambridge/London road, still busy despite through traffic using the Newmarket by-pass further to the north.
www.wildlifetrust.org.uk/bcnp It is scheduled as a S.S.I. The primary silt of the western ditch of the three Mile Ditches has been dated to the second century BC. A second series of multiple ditches running parallel with the line of the Icknield Way between Baldock and Royston has been interpreted as helping to define the territory of the Late Iron Age oppidum at Baldock. The cinder path of the old railway, disused since the cuts of the 1960's, is still clearly visible and is a On the other side of the road a short stretch of the Ditch, thickly enclosed by scrub and bushes, leads to the Cambridge to Newmarket railway gap. After crossing the railway line the Ditch changes in character and becomes much more open.Chalk loving flowers abound along this stretch in summer, greater knapweed, sainfoin, harebells and carline thistle. The ditches have been shown to have silted up very slowly over two millennia before being finally completely filled, on the Cambridgeshire side in the early 1800s and on the Hertfordshire side in the 1940s, when the surviving banks were levelled into the ditches.
The following two mile section of the Ditch runs between the A14 and the B1102 Burwell to Cambridge road.

Dunstable: The Book Castle. Around mid April to early May the beautiful pasque flowers bloom. Walkers energetic enough to have completed the whole of the 7 mile length of the Ditch might well appreciate some refreshments at the Dyke's End pub, set facing the green. Early in 2007 work progressed to the southern section southwards from Court Barns Road (Stetchworth to Cheveley road) Here the main work was the clearing of numerous sycamore saplings on the east side of the bank. 1995 Chiltern Archaeology: Recent Work: a handbook for the next decade. haven for wildlife. What is it that makes the Devil's Ditch so precious? Special Scientific Interest). Top 5 Jockeys - Last 12 Months. The first recorded steeplechase over a prepared track with fences was run at Bedford in 1810, although a race had been run at Newmarket in 1794 over a mile with five-foot bars every quarter mile. Round Course, Audley End Course, Clermont Course, Ancaster Mile, Rowley Mile, Abingdon Mile, Bunbury Mile, Ditch Mile and Yearling Course. Surely it is the unchanging character of this ancient monument in a rapidly changing world, giving us a reminder of our Roman and Anglo-Saxon forebears. In an early 1900s article about steeplechasing Newmarket's course was described as 'a model of a galloping course, with fair fences of good size' . Here also there is a good chance of seeing two of our once common but now sadly declining birds, the linnet and the yellowhammer. risk of our heavily laden bombing 'planes hitting the Ditch bank when taking off from the temporary airfield on the Heath. Turf - Flat. 2, J F Dyer 1961 ‘Dray’s Ditches, Bedfordshire, and Early Iron Age territorial boundaries in the Eastern Chilterns’ in Antiquaries Journal vol. North Hertfordshire Archaeological Society. A few steps along the Icknield Way to the right gives fine views over the depression in the land known as Dane Bottom looking towards Newmarket, with Ely Cathedral visible in the distance. The woods bordering the left Back on the Ditch another half mile of thickly wooded high bank takes the walker to the Court Barns Road crossing. Originally the ditches had accompanying banks formed by the upcast from the ditches. Conservation body - The Wildlife Trust 3b Langford Arch London Rd Sawston Cambridge CB2 4EE (Tel 01223 712400) email cambswt@cix.co.uk Web site. Here centuries old oaks and ash grow and moss covered stumps and fallen boughs slowly rot into the ground, showing nature's pattern of decay and regrowth. There is a website dedicated towards the Devils Dyke (Ditch) Restoration programme.

It is also a Special Area of Conservation and a Scheduled Monument.

If, however, the walk has been done in the opposite direction, there is the the Three Blackbirds in Ditton Green (check that this pub is open before depending on it). Looking towards the Reach end of the Dyke The open views to the right take the eye towards Newmarket over the Links golf course and at one point the golfers drive off from a small green on the top of the bank. An extensive scrub clearance project commenced in the summer of 2002 along the section by the July Racecourse owned by the Jockey Club, under a partnership with the club, the Cambridgeshire County Council, the Wildlife Trust, English Nature and English Heritage. Unlike much of the agricultural land around it has not been 'improved' with fertilizers or pesticides with the result that for at least some of its length a natural balance of plants and trees has been achieved over the centuries. Five varieties of orchid have been seen here, including the rare lizard and bee species. the Ditch and on race days people standing on the bank get a free view of the racing, the arrival and departure of light 'planes carrying racing personalities and the packed grandstands on the other side of the course. There is a wooden post with waymarkers here. This part is again lowered almost to nothing a few yards from the A14 for around 200 yards or so towards Reach. Newmarket Racecourse's new Millennium Grandstand shows up white in the distance.

hawthorn, ivy, privet, elder and wild rose.

The three parallel Iron Age ditches known as the Mile Ditches run from Therfield Heath in Hertfordshire to Bassingbourn Springs in Cambridgeshire, a distance of about three kilometres. For this account we will look at the Ditch as it is in the early 21st century, taking an imaginary walk from the Wood Ditton end at a point near Pickmore Wood, a quarter of a mile walk from Ditton Green.

In September 2001 The Heritage Lottery Fund awarded a grant of £305,000 for the upkeep of the Devil's Ditch, particularly the clearance of invasive scrub towards the northern end. At one place the east bank has been eroded over many years to become almost level with the adjoining land. Open agricultural or sheep grazing land allows wide views towards Burwell to the right. A reminder of World War II and the part played by Newmarket Heath during the war comes when we reach a lowered section of the bank, dug out in 1943 to try to reduce the very real

This is the highest point of the land around here and in line with the main wartime runway of RAF Newmarket Heath.This stretch, once the haunt of the rare red-backed shrike, had become so thickly overgrown with scrub in places that the path leaves the bank and runs alongside. Stetchworth Stud Farms is a 5.8 mile loop trail located near Newmarket, Suffolk, England that offers the chance to see wildlife and is rated as moderate.

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