Houghton Mill

 The last stop, and last National Trust cake, of our few days away was at Houghton Mill on the river Ouse, near Huntingdon (although both now lie in Cambridgeshire) 

The mill itself, the last-remaining working one on the river Ouse, is open for visitors but by pre-booked tour only and we hadn't bothered to enquire as we were really looking for a gentle riverside walk and that all important tea and cake.

And so we ambled alongside the river, past the locks and upstream through nice flat water-meadows, looking at boats, ducks and swans, and enjoying the blue sky, sunshine, and first really warm day of Spring.

There are longer walks that can be taken in the area - up or downstream to Huntingdon or St Ives, or across the flood plain to the villages of Hemingford Abbots and Hemingford Grey - but for this occasion a short walk was enough.