Fen Landscape Nr Upware, Cambridge. Sarah Allbrook.Oil on canvas
December 30, 2023 at 7:31 AM
Fen Landscape Nr Upware, Cambridge. Sarah Allbrook.Oil on canvas
A lovely Goat Moth caterpillar crossing the road at Upware, Cambs, this morning. Luckily the road is closed so it made it across safely.
September 15, 2026 at 9:54 AM
A lovely Goat Moth caterpillar crossing the road at Upware, Cambs, this morning. Luckily the road is closed so it made it across safely.
Ice skating on the Fens at Upware, Cambridgeshire. Successive nights of -5° means the washes freeze and safe for skating. (Photo by Liz)
January 12, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Ice skating on the Fens at Upware, Cambridgeshire. Successive nights of -5° means the washes freeze and safe for skating. (Photo by Liz)
Something you don’t see every day. People in Upware, Cambridgeshire were ice skating on Sunday after five consecutive days of temperatures being below freezing! 🥶
This is a controlled environment where the ice is 4 inches thick - awesome!
📹 Elizabeth Swan
#iceskating #iceskatingfun
This is a controlled environment where the ice is 4 inches thick - awesome!
📹 Elizabeth Swan
#iceskating #iceskatingfun
January 14, 2025 at 7:50 AM
Something you don’t see every day. People in Upware, Cambridgeshire were ice skating on Sunday after five consecutive days of temperatures being below freezing! 🥶
This is a controlled environment where the ice is 4 inches thick - awesome!
📹 Elizabeth Swan
#iceskating #iceskatingfun
This is a controlled environment where the ice is 4 inches thick - awesome!
📹 Elizabeth Swan
#iceskating #iceskatingfun
Skaters on the frozen fens at Upware this morning.
January 12, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Skaters on the frozen fens at Upware this morning.
24th January 2023
A hoar frost is way too cold for a gaggle of geese at Upware.
Picture from my new book 'Cambridge - Light & Shade'. Available at www.cambridgebooks.co.uk/cambridge-li... and all bookshops.
A hoar frost is way too cold for a gaggle of geese at Upware.
Picture from my new book 'Cambridge - Light & Shade'. Available at www.cambridgebooks.co.uk/cambridge-li... and all bookshops.
January 24, 2026 at 10:33 AM
24th January 2023
A hoar frost is way too cold for a gaggle of geese at Upware.
Picture from my new book 'Cambridge - Light & Shade'. Available at www.cambridgebooks.co.uk/cambridge-li... and all bookshops.
A hoar frost is way too cold for a gaggle of geese at Upware.
Picture from my new book 'Cambridge - Light & Shade'. Available at www.cambridgebooks.co.uk/cambridge-li... and all bookshops.
On this day 25 years ago: This 1st summer American Golden Plover at Upware, Cambs.
Not a common bird in West Suffolk, I have tried for one and missed before, but much more frequent just over the border in Cambridgeshire.
@cambsbirdclub.bsky.social
#CambsBirds
Not a common bird in West Suffolk, I have tried for one and missed before, but much more frequent just over the border in Cambridgeshire.
@cambsbirdclub.bsky.social
#CambsBirds
October 7, 2026 at 1:16 PM
On this day 25 years ago: This 1st summer American Golden Plover at Upware, Cambs.
Not a common bird in West Suffolk, I have tried for one and missed before, but much more frequent just over the border in Cambridgeshire.
@cambsbirdclub.bsky.social
#CambsBirds
Not a common bird in West Suffolk, I have tried for one and missed before, but much more frequent just over the border in Cambridgeshire.
@cambsbirdclub.bsky.social
#CambsBirds
A bit of a Fenland Foray today. First up, literally, Upware Wash: Plenty of Wigeon, but nicer still were 10 Avocet. I don’t visit that often, but I’ve not seen them here before. @cambsbirdclub.bsky.social
March 17, 2025 at 12:14 PM
A bit of a Fenland Foray today. First up, literally, Upware Wash: Plenty of Wigeon, but nicer still were 10 Avocet. I don’t visit that often, but I’ve not seen them here before. @cambsbirdclub.bsky.social
11th December 2022
Icy conditions saw the return of Fen skaters to the frozen flooded fields at Upware for the first time in years. Skating has been a part of Fenland life for centuries: in matches held in towns and villages across the region ...
Icy conditions saw the return of Fen skaters to the frozen flooded fields at Upware for the first time in years. Skating has been a part of Fenland life for centuries: in matches held in towns and villages across the region ...
December 11, 2025 at 9:05 AM
11th December 2022
Icy conditions saw the return of Fen skaters to the frozen flooded fields at Upware for the first time in years. Skating has been a part of Fenland life for centuries: in matches held in towns and villages across the region ...
Icy conditions saw the return of Fen skaters to the frozen flooded fields at Upware for the first time in years. Skating has been a part of Fenland life for centuries: in matches held in towns and villages across the region ...
A proper museum with fossils displayed in their naked, stony, bony glory in Cambridge
@sedgwickmuseum.bsky.social. A must-visit for #fossilfriday.
@sedgwickmuseum.bsky.social. A must-visit for #fossilfriday.
May 8, 2026 at 9:41 PM
A proper museum with fossils displayed in their naked, stony, bony glory in Cambridge
@sedgwickmuseum.bsky.social. A must-visit for #fossilfriday.
@sedgwickmuseum.bsky.social. A must-visit for #fossilfriday.
@cambsbirdclub.bsky.social Very pleased to find these in with the Greylags on the Wicken Fen edge of Upware this morning
March 14, 2026 at 8:58 AM
@cambsbirdclub.bsky.social Very pleased to find these in with the Greylags on the Wicken Fen edge of Upware this morning
A lovely overnight stay moored up at the ‘Five miles from anywhere’ pub in Upware.
March 26, 2025 at 4:50 PM
A lovely overnight stay moored up at the ‘Five miles from anywhere’ pub in Upware.
I cycled through Upware on Christmas Eve, when the fens were mud and horses. I love how the ice turns the landscape upside down, the fens suddenly a solid sky. And the photo with the telegraph pole at an angle in the ice, now a maypole for everybody to skate around…
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Fen skaters head to Upware to make most of frozen fields
Fen skating takes place when a meadow floods and then freezes, resulting in very shallow ice.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 17, 2025 at 8:27 PM
I cycled through Upware on Christmas Eve, when the fens were mud and horses. I love how the ice turns the landscape upside down, the fens suddenly a solid sky. And the photo with the telegraph pole at an angle in the ice, now a maypole for everybody to skate around…
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Always struggle for great views of Garganey on the Ouse Washes but not at Tubney Fen! Bonus Common Tern at Upware this evening as well 🙂 @cambsbirdclub.bsky.social
April 19, 2026 at 7:56 PM
Always struggle for great views of Garganey on the Ouse Washes but not at Tubney Fen! Bonus Common Tern at Upware this evening as well 🙂 @cambsbirdclub.bsky.social
Some photos from my ride oout in the Fens on this lovely spring evening, all taken in or near Upware (home of the Five Miles From Anywhere pub, which gives you a hint of how busy the environs of Upware are). The first two show Upware sluice, part of the system that keeps the Fens dry and navigable.
March 20, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Some photos from my ride oout in the Fens on this lovely spring evening, all taken in or near Upware (home of the Five Miles From Anywhere pub, which gives you a hint of how busy the environs of Upware are). The first two show Upware sluice, part of the system that keeps the Fens dry and navigable.
Just a few fen skaters risking the ice at Upware this morning.
January 4, 2026 at 2:16 PM
Just a few fen skaters risking the ice at Upware this morning.
Further to last night’s posts, we’ve come out to Upware to see skating on the Fens for the first time. Beautiful imagery!
@cambridgeindy.bsky.social @acarpen.bsky.social
@cambridgeindy.bsky.social @acarpen.bsky.social
January 11, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Further to last night’s posts, we’ve come out to Upware to see skating on the Fens for the first time. Beautiful imagery!
@cambridgeindy.bsky.social @acarpen.bsky.social
@cambridgeindy.bsky.social @acarpen.bsky.social
Happy leap day! Here are some recent catchings-up I've spotted.
1. Slow ducks in Upware. #JacobinCatchUp
1. Slow ducks in Upware. #JacobinCatchUp
September 21, 2024 at 7:06 PM
Happy leap day! Here are some recent catchings-up I've spotted.
1. Slow ducks in Upware. #JacobinCatchUp
1. Slow ducks in Upware. #JacobinCatchUp
There were a few fen skaters out at Upware this morning, making the most of the brief cold snap. I wasn't allowed to join them because I was getting a bit overexcited, but did try my paws on the ice in the next meadow.
January 4, 2026 at 1:25 PM
There were a few fen skaters out at Upware this morning, making the most of the brief cold snap. I wasn't allowed to join them because I was getting a bit overexcited, but did try my paws on the ice in the next meadow.
Between Upware and Burwell.
April 2, 2026 at 11:40 AM
Between Upware and Burwell.
The Cam Washes are not really Washes any more - drying up in even wet years. The Upware wash long gone in this exceptionally dry spring. It's lost its breeding wader populations sadly
June 5, 2025 at 12:45 PM
The Cam Washes are not really Washes any more - drying up in even wet years. The Upware wash long gone in this exceptionally dry spring. It's lost its breeding wader populations sadly
The Five Miles From Anywhere, No Hurry Inn, formerly the Lord Nelson, Upware, Cambridgeshire.
This photo was taken prior to the thatched roof being covered with corrugated iron in the 1890’s. The pub was badly damaged by fire in 1956, the current pub dates from a rebuild 1980.
#PubHistory
This photo was taken prior to the thatched roof being covered with corrugated iron in the 1890’s. The pub was badly damaged by fire in 1956, the current pub dates from a rebuild 1980.
#PubHistory
December 3, 2025 at 5:26 PM
The Five Miles From Anywhere, No Hurry Inn, formerly the Lord Nelson, Upware, Cambridgeshire.
This photo was taken prior to the thatched roof being covered with corrugated iron in the 1890’s. The pub was badly damaged by fire in 1956, the current pub dates from a rebuild 1980.
#PubHistory
This photo was taken prior to the thatched roof being covered with corrugated iron in the 1890’s. The pub was badly damaged by fire in 1956, the current pub dates from a rebuild 1980.
#PubHistory
Fen skaters head to Upware to make most of frozen fields
Fen skaters head to Upware to make most of frozen fields
Fen skating takes place when a meadow floods and then freezes, resulting in very shallow ice.
www.bbc.com
January 13, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Fen skaters head to Upware to make most of frozen fields