Introduction
A fine Saturday, we set off on one our favourite rides up to Dullingham and added a loop to Ashley (109th) taking in Cheveley (110th), Saxon Street (111th, actually a hamlet not a village) and Woodditton (112th) before coming back to Six Mile Bottom down one of our favourite downhills.
We ate sandwiches in Ashley and had beer at the first pub we found open on Saturday lunchtime - The Three Blackbirds at Woodditton. We have cycled through Woodditton before. 68 km (42 miles).
Ashley
Metal sign. Tree, bell in tower, ruined church. Knights Hospitaller crest and two white stars.
Cheveley
Saxon Street
A hamlet not on my original list of villages in Cambridgeshire.
Woodditton
Seems to include Little Ditton and Ditton Green. Not a typical village sign - no name of village.
"It was to commemorate the millennium and has a number of elements meant to show the history of Wood Ditton, and placing it in time and space.
The wheels come from an old horse drawn seed drill, demonstrating the farming heritage, and how the horse was relied on for everyday work in the past, and not just for racing.
The metal rings were facsimiles of the iron ‘tyres’ from the rims of the wheels which would have been made at the local forge.
The weather vane shows two men and a crosscut saw, evoking the old foresters who would have worked in the woods that surrounded the village and marked the end of the Devils Ditch.
At the top is an Armillary, each day marking the passage of time, reminding people of the millennium year the sculpture was commissioned.
And in the centre is a golden globe signifying the sun, surrounded by the orbiting planets, and which again tries to elicit thoughts of our never ending movement through time and space.
Well, that was the idea anyway!"
112 signs so far in 36 rides. Our Eddington number since 2018 has gone up to 31.
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