Pathfinder Long Distance Walk
A 45-mile long-distance path in Cambridgeshire linking the historic RAF Pathfinder stations at Wyton, Graveley, Oakington, and Warboys. With map, statistics, and GPX route file.
Statistics and Files
Grid Ref: TL 282 739
Distance: 45 miles (72 km)
Time: 18–23 hours
Duration: 3–4 days
Ordnance Survey Explorer Maps (1:25,000):
208 Bedford and St Neots
209 Cambridge, Royston, Duxford and Linton
225 Huntingdon and St Ives
Summary
The Pathfinder Long Distance Walk in Cambridgeshire was devised to perpetuate the name of the Royal Air Force Pathfinder Force, with the route purposely linking the historic RAF Pathfinder stations at Wyton, Graveley, Oakington, and Warboys.
The path uses public rights of way on a circular course across gentle countryside, through quaint towns and villages, and past a number of wartime memorials and historic sites. Originally designed as a 20-hour challenge walk, it now also serves as an illuminating route commemorating the RAF and its associations with Cambridgeshire.
Beginning and ending at RAF Wyton, the route goes via King’s Ripton, Broughton, Warboys, Somersham, Colne, Bluntisham, the River Great Ouse, Swavesey, Cow Fen, Longstanton, Oakington, Dry Drayton, Childerley, Knapwell, Elsworth, Papworth Everard, Graveley, Godmanchester, Hemingford Abbots, and Houghton.