Finding Nordelph: free directions leaflets

There's a new video that you can download, to make finding Nordelph a more visual process -- see the bottom of this page.

We’re all of us faced with the problem of giving visitors directions so that they can find our homes. That’s something that we can’t help you with. But we can offer you two simple leaflets with instructions for your visitors to find Nordelph and enjoy their journey! These describe a number of routes to the village with notes on what to look out for, where the speed cameras are and such like. There are two sets, one for travellers from the East, one for the West.



Here’s a sample from the Western Routes leaflet:

The Great Fen Route
The most open and unspoiled route, through land that it is planned to return to nature, and for miles along the Sixteen Foot Drain.
Pass to the north of Huntingdon on the ring road, turning off on the A141 for March. Almost immediately, you become aware of the Fens, with their huge skies and wide horizons. To your left throughout the first part of the journey is the Great Fen, an area that might be allowed to return to the waterlogged reed beds that prevailed before the Dutch drained this land. Just before Chatteris, you pass from the western to the eastern hemisphere.
At the second roundabout in Chatteris, leave the A141 for the A142 signed Ely. After barely 1 km, turn left for Manea. At the next T-junction, turn left, and then shortly after crossing a river, left again. You will find yourself very shortly running alongside the Sixteen Foot Drain. For 13 km, dead straight, with the exception of an unexplained kink at 3 km, you run parallel to and above the water. This is rare in the Fens — despite the profusion of drains, you are usually crossing them, or following their earth banks. After you have passed Christchurch to the right, you will see a sign for Nordelph and Downham Market to the right. Follow this, turning left again in about 0.5 km. At the next crossroads (with the A1101) go straight across and enter the Silt Road. The directions continue below with Entering Nordelph.”

The leaflets can be downloaded as PDF (Portable Document Format) files, and are designed to be printed onto both sides of a single sheet, which is then folded in three.

Download the one you want by clicking below:
Routes from the West
Routes from the East

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Video drives

We've added a new feature to this page. Provided you have a suitable (Broadband) Internet connection, you can download our 'video directions'. We've recorded the drive from the A1 at Huntingdon to Nordelph, via Chatteris and the 16-foot drain. We've speeded it up (it lasts 4'30") and added useful captions, like the one above. Quality isn't good -- we've compressed it as much as possible -- but you may find it useful: and certainly fun, flying through the Fens at speeds up to 700 mph! But be warned -- this was recorded in 2005, and we're amazed at how much has changed: at least one new roundabout, and a new 'Welcome to Norfolk' sign.

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