Up to Swavesey

Once a year I chair a meeting on a cold February evening in Swavesey attended by the fen farmers who pay a levy to maintain the roads or droves in that part of South Cambridgeshire. Very little money is spent on the roads, because the farmers do much of the work themselves, and the district council is frugal in purchasing the material that goes into potholes and gaps that appear. It is a very different world from Whittlesford, with its Cambridge-centred economy and commuters clutching their lattes on the station catching the 0725 down to Liverpool Street. A diverse place, South Cambridgeshire.