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Children stand in and near a shallow ford beside a low stone wall and white wooden railing bridge on a leafy country lane.

Children at ford, Hinxton (photo L Cobbett) (Cambridgeshire Collection)

Ford, Duxford Road

History of the ford

A section of a 1901 Ordnance Survey map showing a road crossing a waterway marked as a ford, alongside a footbridge symbol.

Ford on Duxford Road, OS 1901

V Walker, Life and Times of Hinxton, 2000, records that when otters were seen on the river in 1888 they were hunted and caught.

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