Benwick War Memorial

You'll find this memorial standing quietly in Benwick, just east of March, where the Fens open out into that vast Cambridgeshire sky. It's a modest structure - the kind of war memorial you see in dozens of market towns across England - but like all of them, it carries real weight. The names carved into it represent men from this tiny village who didn't come home from the world wars.

There's nothing flashy about it. No visitor centre, no admission fee, no opening hours to worry about. You simply turn up, stand in front of it, and read. That's rather the point. It takes ten minutes, maybe less, but it's the sort of thing that sticks with you - especially if you've got any family connection to the area or if you're interested in how communities remember their own.

It works well as a brief stop if you're based at one of the nearby parks - Fields End Water is barely two miles away, or Knightsbridge Marina slightly further. Neither the memorial nor Benwick itself will eat into a full day, but if you're caravan-hopping around the Fens, it's worth a detour on the way through. Bring flowers if that matters to you. The village itself is proper fenland - flat, quiet, and a bit windswept - so go on a decent day rather than when the weather's turning grim.