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Dist:0.1km<br/>A whole slew of Grade II listed buildings here. From right to left: No. 26 (white). C18 and C19. Timber framed, plaster rendered, steeply pitched pantiled roof. Single bay. C19 part to east, brick, rendered, and pantiled roof. http://www.heritagegateway.org.uk/Gateway/Results_Single.aspx?resourceID=5&uid=52310 No. 28 (off-white). Two building periods as 26. Timber framed, rendered and pantiled. C19 part of brick, rendered, with pantiled roof and grey brick ridge stack. http://www.heritagegateway.org.uk/Gateway/Results_Single.aspx?resourceID=5&uid=52311 No. 30, Tudor Mede. C15 open hall and east crosswing. Renovated and extended. Timber framed, plaster rendered, reed thatch. Half hipped roof to west end of hall, and hipped to south end of crosswing. C17 inserted red brick stack. Formerly named as Laurel House with Pigeon House. http://www.heritagegateway.org.uk/Gateway/Results_Single.aspx?resourceID=5&uid=52312 The wall (I kid you not) C19. Clunch rubble, plastered, with capping of long straw thatch. http://www.heritagegateway.org.uk/Gateway/Results_Single.aspx?resourceID=5&uid=52313
©Keith Edkins
Dist:0.2km<br/>A medieval quarry which was designated in 1985 by English Nature as a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI). Here is a link for more infoarmation: http://www.orwellvillage.co.uk/orwell-clunch-pit.htm
©Brian Green
Dist:0.2km<br/>The church of St Andrew Orwell Cambridgeshire for more info see http://www.druidic.org/camchurch/churches/orwell.htm
©Keith Evans
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©Ben Harris
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©Sebastian Ballard
Dist:0.3km<br/>Seen from the top of the churchyard. For Cambridgeshire, the ground behind the camera climbs quite noticeably!
©David Purchase
Dist:0.3km<br/>view from the Whippet Bus Stop on the A603 Hillside road.
©Rodney Burton
Dist:0.3km<br/>This footpath starts just to the right of the church and there are 39 steps to the first 'kissing gate'.
©Brian Green
Dist:0.3km<br/>Cottage orné, 1843 (dated at gable end). Framed and plaster rendered with steeply pitched tiled roof. Grey brick ridge stack with shaft set diagonally on square base. Built on a plot allotted to John Bendyshe under Enclosure Act of 1836. Grade II listed. http://www.heritagegateway.org.uk/Gateway/Results_Single.aspx?resourceID=5&uid=52331
©Keith Edkins
Dist:0.3km<br/>A lovely church.
©Brian Green
Dist:0.3km<br/>http://www.druidic.org/camchurch/churches/orwell.htm
©mym
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©Sebastian Ballard
Dist:0.3km<br/>The pumping station lurks in a small clump of trees.
©Ben Harris
Dist:0.4km<br/>Orwell.
©Sebastian Ballard
Dist:0.5km<br/>When this picture was taken in July 2009, The Chequers had suddenly closed its doors leaving Orwell without a pub. However local residents were hopeful that it would re-open soon.
©Mike W Hallett

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