{"id":2636,"date":"2014-09-13T13:42:40","date_gmt":"2014-09-13T13:42:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/martinblack.com\/?p=2636"},"modified":"2014-11-22T15:11:50","modified_gmt":"2014-11-22T15:11:50","slug":"on-the-icknield-way-great-chesterford-to-linton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/martinblack.com\/oldsite\/2014\/09\/on-the-icknield-way-great-chesterford-to-linton\/","title":{"rendered":"On the Icknield Way – Great Chesterford to Linton"},"content":{"rendered":"

I walked this stage of the Icknield Way Path expedition<\/a>\u00a0at the start\u00a0of September\u00a02014.<\/p>\n

This was a short stage, only four miles as the bird flies, seven miles for me as I meandered and committed minor trespass in some woods along the way.<\/p>\n

I picked up trail at Great Chesterford, a pretty village on the border of Essex and Cambridgeshire.<\/p>\n

\"Great
Great Chesterford village sign<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The river Cam runs through the village…<\/p>\n

\"The
The River Cam at Great Chesterford<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

…and looked gorgeous in the somewhat grey and misty autumn morning.<\/p>\n

\"The
The RIver Cam at Great Chesterford<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Leaving the village I passed a mile-marker.<\/p>\n

\"Mileage
Mileage post near Great Chesterford<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It felt great to be back out walking again, with the sound of birds chirping and a light breeze on my face. I sang some songs and whistled a tune, life felt good.<\/p>\n

\"On
On the Icknield Way<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I feasted on blackberries, one of the highlights of hiking in the later summer\/early autumn. \u00a0Free, tasty and nutritious, what else do you want?<\/p>\n

\"Blackberries\"
Blackberries<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

And suddenly the walk was almost over. My destination, Linton, barely half a mile from this green arch where I sat down and ate my lunch.<\/p>\n

\"Green
Green archway near Linton<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I arrived at Linton considering a pint but saw the bus back home pulling in\u00a0at the bus stop, so I jumped on board. \u00a0A short, but very enjoyable hike, on the Icknield Way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I walked this stage of the Icknield Way Path expedition\u00a0at the start\u00a0of September\u00a02014. This was a short stage, only four…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12,109],"tags":[61,36,110,32,142],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/martinblack.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2636"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/martinblack.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/martinblack.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martinblack.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martinblack.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2636"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/martinblack.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2649,"href":"https:\/\/martinblack.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2636\/revisions\/2649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/martinblack.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martinblack.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martinblack.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}