FOOTPATH 6: (Mow Fen Drove) starts near the cemetery, reached from Taylors Lane. A straight gravel track leads to the railway crossing. To the right are small meadows with tall hedges, and to the left mainly arable fields. There are badger scrapes, setts and dung pits in the area, and although there is no public access to the meadows, badgers may be seen or heard from the footpath at night. At the railway crossing the only evidence of a crossing keeper's house and garden is a number of fruit trees, Japanese knotweed and perennial sweet pea plants.

The route continues along the track, with Swavesey Lake on the right, to Covell's Bridge. Look for wildfowl, mink and, optimistically, an otter at this point. The footpath turns right, over a stile, along the right bank of Covell's Drain, officially crossing at the footbridge halfway along and joining footpath 2. Many people stay on the right bank, passing the end of bridleway 5, to join footpath 2 at the flood protection doors at the mouth of the drain.