WakeHereward Project
Safeguarding the Hereward legend since 2013.
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Hereward Trail
The Hereward Trail
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The Hereward Trail is a connected network of routes that explore the life, legend, and landscape of Hereward the Wake across the Fenlands and South Lincolnshire.
Rather than a single path, the Hereward Trail brings together a series of driving, walking, and cycling routes that allow visitors to experience Hereward’s story in different ways — through towns, countryside, abbey sites, and historic landscapes.
At its heart is the original Hereward Trail — a one-day driving route linking Bourne, Peterborough, Ely, and Crowland — but the wider Hereward Trail includes additional journeys through Hereward’s homelands, landholdings, and places of memory. Some routes are designed for day visitors, others for longer exploration on foot or by bicycle. Together, they form a flexible, expanding trail system that can be explored in sections or as a whole.
​​The Hereward Trail is part of the wider Hereward Country programme, which aims to encourage cultural heritage tourism, outdoor exploration, and local engagement. Through interpretation boards, waymarkers, QR-linked content, and collaboration with communities and councils, the trail network brings history out of books and into the landscape itself.
Whether you choose a single route or follow several trails across the region, the Hereward Trail invites you to explore England’s past by moving through the places where it happened.
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'Take the Hereward Trail across Hereward Country in search of Hereward.'