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Field View, CAMBRIDGE, CB25 0FQ

Looking towards Burwell.

A suburban-looking part of a large village on the edge of the Cambridgeshire Fens. Copperfield Way is on the right.

The motorcyclist is turning out of Isaacson Road. Houses are to be built on this large greenfield site and according to the publicity 75% of them will be unaffordable.

Looking South East along Newmarket Road Burwell. Cambridgeshire.

Looking north west.

The camera is at the most westerly point in Suffolk looking along the Suffolk\Cambridgeshire boundary which runs along edge of this field. The hedgerow is on a raised bank, which indicates an ancient boundary: The county line, which is also the boundary of the parish of Exning, is jagged following old field patterns. The local parish church website http://www.exningparishchurch.net/history_village.htm gives this explanation as to why Exning was not incorporated in Cambridgeshire: "If you look at the modern map of East Anglia, you will notice that the bulge of West Suffolk into Cambridgeshire consists of the ancient parish of Exning. Why was it that Exning was not incorporated in Cambridgeshire? The reason given was the ancient name and fame of Exning from the past; so it was allowed to remain in East Anglia because Cambridge was not East Anglia in the real sense of the word."

Exning Road Halt on the Cambridge & Mildenhall branch line was opened in November 1922, and closed in 1962. The halt was not much more than a levelled space, with no raised platform or buildings of any kind; it was situated to the south of the bridge carrying the B1103 Burwell – Newmarket road, and to the east of the line. Access was by a footpath down the side of the bridge approach. The bridge was found to be dangerous, and was filled in c.2000. The picture is from the top of the bridge, looking south along the old trackbed, the halt was in the grassed area to the left of the picture.