4th April 2021 - Orwell, Melbourn, Shepreth

Introduction

A fine Sunday morning. We off to Haslingfield, over  Chapel Hill to Barrington and on to Orwell. WE then went to Meldreth where we did not spot the sign. We went to Melbourn and Shepreth and then rode on the A10 cycleway back to Cambridge. About 46km (28 miles).

Orwell

Double sided - A view with a quarry and spherical rocks. Well on the left and a building on the right. 

The well had moved to the right and the building to the left.

Plaque on post: "Donated and Erected by The Villages of Orwell. Unveiled by Mrs Peggy Miller 27th June 1987"

Meldreth

We missed the sign(s) in this village. From pictures on the internet there is a low wood sign like a street sign on the green by the stocks we missed this as we were looking for a sign on a post. There are also pictures of a wrought iron sign which we did not find. We will come back.

Melbourn

Double sided - both sides the same. A tree and a puritan. I am not sure what the yellow object in the upper right represents.

From the internet this sign was unvailed in 2007 replacing a previous sign The man is John Bunyan the author of The Pilgrims Progress. The tree is a chestnut tree. The yellow object may relate to the village cross.

Shepreth

A metal sign. Fish, sheep, water mill, church, wheat sheafs?, bales of straw? MMX (2010)

Plaque on post: "In memory of John H Smith (1948-2014) Past councillor and chairman of the parish"

Village sign cycle ride number 22 - a total of 69 signs so far. We have covered all villages within 14.4km of our home, except Wimpole which doesn't appear to have a sign from internet investigation. It is on the A603 with no back road approach so we may give it a miss.