In May 2024 four new Walk Guides were published. Each walk is a good introduction to the geology of the Cambridgeshire Fens, telling the story of tidal marshes in the Bronze Age, ancient river beds (roddons) and River Terrace Gravels of the Nene, Ouse and Cam from the ‘Ice Age’ and the Jurassic and Cretaceous seas that covered this part of the planet many millions of years ago. The walks also describe how local history has been affected by the landscape and how today’s villages, towns and cities are still closely linked to the origins of their location. All Walk Guides can be downloaded from the Fen Edge Trail website. 

We hope to organise some guided walks on the routes later in 2024 and in 2025.

Stanground to Yaxley

Wood Walton to Ramsey

St Ives to Swavesey

Two new Local Geological Sites designated at Burwell

We are very pleased to announce that our latest proposal for designation as  Local Geological Sites (LGS) were recently (October 2020) approved by the County Wildlife and Geological Sites Panel.

The two sites, 400m apart in Burwell, Cambridgeshire are linked by the presence of the Cretaceous Grey Chalk Totternhoe Stone horizon – a famous and ubiquitous , East Cambridgeshire building stone.

The two sites, Carter’s Pit and Castle Spring, have been chosen due to their importance both to the area and to the understanding of the local geology.

More information regarding these sites can be found here. The CGS led a field trip to the Burwell Geological sites in June 2021. A report on this trip can be found here.