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Grantchester Meadows

Grantchester, CambridgeAlong the River Cam
Passable

Grantchester Meadows is currently open and passable.

Updated Wed 10 Jun, 21:30

Water level right now

0.50 mASDmeasured 32 min ago

River Rhee at Cambridge Byron's Pool · 1.1 km away

Holding steady over the last 5 h

That’s below the level where this path usually starts to flood.

This flood line starts from years of this gauge’s history — the level the river only tops a few days a year. Reports of a flooded or passable day will tune it to the path itself.

About this path

The classic riverside walk from Newnham across the floodplain meadows to Grantchester, on the unsurfaced path beside the river. The charity that manages the meadows warns the riverside path can be flooded or very wet, and the meadows sit inside a flood warning area — they went fully under in 1978 and 2014.

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From people on the ground

No reports in the last 24 hours. If you’ve been down, you’d be the first.

Flood Path is advisory and not safety-critical — river readings come from public feeds with no guarantee, and conditions can change fast in heavy rain. Use your own judgement on the day.