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BRIDLEWAY 5: leaves Station Road
along a tarmac and gravel track (Hog
Pasture) to its junction with footpath
3 (Middle Fen Drove) at the railway
crossing. It is lined by overgrown hedgerows
and ancient willows in need of re-pollarding.
Just over the railway line on the right-hand
side is the New Dock, constructed at
the same time as the railway to replace
the wharves in the village, as barges
could not pass under the railway. The
reeds in the dock support a thriving
colony of reed warblers. The route turns
left, over a stile, to follow the bank
of the Navigation Drain. It passes under
the overhanging hedgerow in places,
with glimpses of Swavesey Lake (see
footpath 2) on the left. It joins the
bank of Co veil's Drain near the crumbling
brickwork of an earlier set of flood
protection doors, overgrown with brambles.
Sedge warblers nest along the overgrown
stretches of this drain. Turn right
along the bank to meet footpath 2 at
the mouth of the drain.
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