Country Park Trails - The Creswells

This riverside path goes through an area known as the Cresswells, pronounced Creasels. This was an area where the people of Ely grew water cress, but called it ‘water creases’.

This is a popular stretch of river for angling and around the turn of the twentieth century, Ely had a friendly invasion of Sheffielders, who took their Wakes Weeks holiday for fishing in the Fens.

The busy railway line that now runs through this area was brought to Ely in 1845 by the great Victorian engineer, Samuel Morton Peto, to connect London to his development plans for Lowestoft on the Suffolk coast.