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The Hardwick to Dry Drayton Footpath
This 1.5 mile footpath forms part of the 273 mile Greenwich Meridian Trail & is more or less at its midway point. It actually lies about a mile to the east of the Meridian. The path starts on St Neot's Road in Hardwick, crosses the adjacent A428 dual-carriage way on an imposing structure opened in 2007 which theoretically allows those in wheelchairs to use the path. It follows the Callow Brook on its east side for about a mile, then crosses over it on a wooden bridge, before following the edge of a field to a gateway at the rear of Dry Drayton churchyard. The path passes through the churchyard to end at the village green.
This is an ancient footpath - it is shown in a map of Dry Drayton dated 900AD although its route now is slightly different from that shown. In particular, over the past 15 years or so it has been diverted twice: the path used to start on St Neots Road about 400 yards to the east. There was no bridge - crossing the A428 required one to take ones life in one's hands & I guess not many risked it. The path followed field edges for most of the way rather than the Brook & made a 90 deg turn downhill to meet the Brook about 400 yards from the wooden bridge. The other diversion was at Dry Drayton: after crossing Callow Brook the path headed directly to the churchyard gateway across the field which required a strip to be mown in the crop. This previous route is described in the Dry Drayton Footpath booklet ( Link
) where it is listed as Footpath 17.
This is an ancient footpath - it is shown in a map of Dry Drayton dated 900AD although its route now is slightly different from that shown. In particular, over the past 15 years or so it has been diverted twice: the path used to start on St Neots Road about 400 yards to the east. There was no bridge - crossing the A428 required one to take ones life in one's hands & I guess not many risked it. The path followed field edges for most of the way rather than the Brook & made a 90 deg turn downhill to meet the Brook about 400 yards from the wooden bridge. The other diversion was at Dry Drayton: after crossing Callow Brook the path headed directly to the churchyard gateway across the field which required a strip to be mown in the crop. This previous route is described in the Dry Drayton Footpath booklet ( Link
) where it is listed as Footpath 17.Created: Tue, 24 Sep 2019, Updated: Fri, 22 May 2020
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