* There is a long-distance footpath through the Cambridgeshire fenland from Peterborough to Ely, called the Hereward Way.

A long-distance footpath called the Hereward Way crosses the river by the A1101 bridge at Welney, and then follows the eastern bank southwards almost to the March to Ely railway line.

The Hereward Way runs through the town from Rutland to the Peddars Way in Norfolk, along the Roman Ermine Street and then the River Nene.

The Catholic Church of St Mary and Guthlac on Hereward Way was consecrated in the late 1960s, replacing the nearby Waterton Chapel, a private place of worship in the ownership of a prominent local Catholic family.

It then follows the Teesdale Way, the Cleveland Way, the Wolds Way, the Viking Way, the Hereward Way, the Fen Rivers Way, the Icknield Way Path, the Stour Valley Path and the Essex Way to Harwich.

The Jurassic Way and Hereward Way pass through the village to the north, crossing the Welland at Collyweston Bridge, near Geeston.

There is easy access to several long distance footpaths, including the Peddars Way, Angles Way, Icknield Way, Iceni Way and the Hereward Way.

Peter Rex, in his 2005 biography of Hereward, points out that the campaigns he is reported to have fought in the neighbourhood of Flanders seem to have begun around 1063, and suggests that Hereward in fact went to Flanders-meaning that, if he was 18 at the time of his exile, he was born in 1044 / 5.

Domesday Book shows that a man named Hereward held lands in the parishes of Witham on the Hill and Barholm with Stow in the south-western corner of Lincolnshire as a tenant of Peterborough Abbey ; prior to his exile, Hereward had also held lands as a tenant of Croyland Abbey at Crowland, eight miles east of Market Deeping in the neighbouring fenland.

According to the Gesta Herewardi, Hereward was exiled at the age of eighteen for disobedience to his father and disruptive behaviour, and he was declared an outlaw by Edward the Confessor.

* Henry Treece's children's novel Man with a Sword was published by the Bodley Head, London, in 1962: Hereward is the hero of the story, in the first episode he is the champion of the Empress Gunhilda of Germany and at the end his life extends past the death of William I.

* Hancock's Half Hour-Sid James claims Hereward stayed at Hancock's house as a ploy to get the house renovated by the National Trust.

* Progressive rock band Pink Floyd referred to Hereward in the track " Let There Be More Light " ( 1968 ), in which a psychedelic vision at Mildenhall reveals the ' living soul of Hereward the Wake '.

* Hereward the Wake — English translation of Gesta Herewardi at River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester

* Charles Kingsley, Hereward, the Last of the English, 1865, at Project Gutenburg

Nelly lives an active lifestyle and is studying sports coaching and leadership at Hereward College.

Podesta is a phantom island reported at by the Italian Captain Pinocchio of the vessel Barone Podestà ( Hereward Carrington, Carrington Collection, page 21 ) in 1879 claiming it to be just over a kilometre in circumference located 1390 km due west of El Quisco, Chile.

Hereward Thimbleby Price ( 1880 – 1964 ) was an English author and Professor of English at the University of Michigan.

The station launched at 01: 00, while disc jockey John Warwick hosted its morning show, Hereward Daybreak the following morning.

Shortly afterwards, due to general difficulties within the commercial radio industry at the time Hereward withdrew from Northamptonshire and continued in Peterborough.

Other members of the original team included Peter Robinson ( news ) and Sasha Twining ( news and presentation ), Paul Gardner, Richard Tree and Sarah Harding ( all 3 in sales ), Jim Warwick ( engineer based at Hereward Radio ), and Amanda Wildman ( on reception ).

On return to civilian life, he worked at a number of jobs, notably as a physical training instructor to boys at the Hereward Camp approved school at Bourne.

Capturing the crater, he found Lieutenant Harold Hereward Bieske at the bottom wounded.

Edwin was soon betrayed and killed, while Morcar joined the rebellion, initiated by the Abbot of Ely and tactically organized by Hereward the Wake, against William the Conqueror at the Isle of Ely ( FNQ chapter XX ).

Bob Wake's role in maintaining a watch on the CPA in Queensland, especially during the state wide railway strike of 1948 is documented in his son's book No Ribbons or Medals, the story of ' Hereward ' an Australian counter espionage officer.

In the same year that Twenty's railway station opened ( 1866 ), the novelist Charles Kingsley published his romance Hereward, the Last of the English, in which he describes the Fens as he thought they had been in around 1070.

* From 1980 to 2009, a local radio station broadcasting from Peterborough was called Hereward FM, before being relaunched as Heart Peterborough.

102. 7 Heart Peterborough ( formerly Hereward FM ) was an Independent Local Radio station for Peterborough, Boston, King's Lynn, Cambridgeshire, south Lincolnshire and west Norfolk.

Launched on 10 July 1980 as Hereward Radio 225, the station was the first local service in the area, with the studios originally based in the back of a former pub in Bridge Street, Peterborough, before relocating to the Queensgate Shopping Centre in the city in 1987.

With the tagline of the station you can really call your own, Hereward Radio began on 95. 7 MHz and 225 metres / 1332kHz.

It is the only station to actually be local to the area, with closest rivals Heart 102. 7 in Peterborough ( formerly Hereward FM ) taking most programes from London, and the rest with Heart 103 in Cambridge.

* Hereward the Wake makes a significant appearance in Keeper of the Crystal Spring ( 1998 ) by Naomi & Deborah Baltuck, a historical romance / adventure set in a predominantly Saxon community 20 years after the Battle of Hastings.

Although Sweyn had promised to leave England, he returned in spring 1070, raiding along the Humber and East Anglia toward the Isle of Ely, where he joined up with Hereward the Wake, a local thegn.

NOW Digital broadcasts from the East Casterton transmitter covering the town and Spalding, which provides the Peterborough 12D multiplex ( BBC Radio Cambridgeshire and Hereward FM ).

The origin of the legend is claimed by some to have stemmed from actual outlaws, or from tales of outlaws, such as Hereward the Wake, Eustace the Monk, Fulk FitzWarin and William Wallace.

Earl Edwin was betrayed by his own men and killed, while William built a causeway to subdue the Isle of Ely, where Hereward the Wake and Morcar were hiding.

* No Ribbons or Medals: the story of " Hereward " an Australian counter espionage officer published by Jacobyte Books, South Australia, 2004 ISBN 1-74100-165-X available from Digital Print, South Australia.

On screen he has been portrayed by Eduard Franz in the film Lady Godiva of Coventry ( 1955 ), George Howe in the BBC TV drama series Hereward the Wake ( 1965 ), Donald Eccles in the two-part BBC TV play Conquest ( 1966 ; part of the series Theatre 625 ), Brian Blessed in Macbeth ( 1997 ), based on the Shakespeare play ( although he does not appear in the play itself ), and Adam Woodroffe in an episode of the British TV series Historyonics entitled " 1066 " ( 2004 ).

Sweyn II of Denmark arrived in person to take command of his fleet and renounced the earlier agreement to withdraw, sending troops into the Fens to join forces with English rebels led by Hereward, who were based on the Isle of Ely.

Edwin and Morcar again turned against William, and while Edwin was soon betrayed and killed, Morcar reached Ely, where he and Hereward were joined by exiled rebels who had sailed from Scotland.

On the other hand, the original version of the Gesta was written in explicit praise of Hereward ,; much of its information was provided by men who knew him personally, principally, if the preface is to be believed, a former colleague in arms and member of his father's former household named Leofric the Deacon.

There is a wide variety of secondary sources of information, but they must be treated with caution: the popular, romanticised view of Hereward often has little basis in the medieval sources, owing more to the fictional depiction by Charles Kingsley and later authors.

They were joined by many, including Hereward.

This circular feature, known as Belsar's Hill, is a potential site for a fort, built by William, from which to attack Ely and Hereward.

The twelfth-century Gesta Herewardi ( of unknown authorship ; first published by Thomas Wright in 1839 and translated by W. Sweeting for the 1895 edition ), says Hereward was eventually pardoned by William and lived the rest of his life in relative peace.

Geoffrey Gaimar, in his Estoire des Engleis, says instead that Hereward lived for some time as an outlaw in the Fens, but that as he was on the verge of making peace with William, he was set upon and killed by a group of Norman knights.

Popular legend interprets it as meaning " the watchful ", and supposes that Hereward acquired it when, with the help of his servant Martin Lightfoot, he foiled an assassination attempt during a hunting party by a group of knights jealous of his popularity.

* Cold Heart, Cruel Hand: a novel of Hereward the Wake ( 2004 ) is a novel by Laurence J.

* Hereward by James Wilde ( 2011 ), a " brutal novel of revenge ", first in a projected trilogy, with the next two titles, The Devil's Army and End of Days to be published in the future.

The premise of this story is that Hereward was an alias adopted by King Harold after surviving the Battle of Hastings.

* The BBC made a 16-episode TV series in 1965 entitled Hereward the Wake, based on Kingsley's novel: Hereward was portrayed by actor Alfred Lynch.

* Hereward is the subject of the track " Rebel of the Marshlands " by metal band Forefather, in their 2005 album Ours Is the Kingdom.