I left you in Eaton Ford, so now all we have to do is cross the Great Ouse into the town of St. Neots.
Oh look, there's a pub right by the river and the bridge!
The Great Ouse is navigable and the remains of the wharf still exist.
Not far away, the parish church.
The main bus company used to be United Counties. Here's one of their early Bristol VRs, with a rebuilt front end.
United Counties got bought out by Stagecoach, which is now the town's main operator.
Cavalier/Huntingdon & District also succumbed to Stagecoach.
The town's other operator was Whippet Coaches.
St. Neots was once home to Paine's Brewery, right in the town centre.
Our first pub, though, is a former Whitbread house, Ye Olde Sun.
The Falcon was once a rough & ready Greene King pub.
It later became a great free house called the Pig & Falcon.
The Woolpack is a Charles Wells house.
Onwards towards a back street boozer, the Lord John Russell. It's since been rebranded as the Ale Taster.
There's also the obligatory Wetherspoons, the Weeping Ash.
It's a long walk to the railway station, but on the way there's a Greene King pub called the Bull's Head.
Even from the Bull's Head, it's still a good distance from the station, but here it is in Great Northern Railway days.
Here comes a train!
Heading north, the railway passes next to the village of Little Paxton, but there's never been a station. There is, though, a decent pub, the Anchor......
.....and that's where I'll leave you for now.
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