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lyingit

Anyone live Shepreth?

I've just recently moved over here (Royston area), and can't help but notice that Shepreth reeks of piss/shit...pretty much all the time.

I know there is the wildlife park (my FIL says it's a waste of money), but I can't imagine anyone that lives there being happy with the stench.

I find myself wondering if the park just isn't cleaned regularly enough, as coming from Chicagoland, neither of the neighborhoods around the two area zoos smells anything like Shepreth, hell, I've been in the farmlands when they are laying their fertilizer and it doesn't stink as bad.

So, is it just the wildlife park, or is it a village of goat herds?

Posted Aug 6, 2011, 10:43 AM UTC

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Chooban•

I don't think its from the wildlife park but from the farm next to the railway station. It always has a pile of manure stashed in the field year round. I'm not quite sure what it is but it is very potent. Every time I cycle the tracks I get hit by a warm blast of shitty air. If you've just recently moved here you've come at a bad time as the fields have been cleared and they're laying down some fishy godawful shit juice (I'm not a farmer). It's usually fine up to this time of the year. In other areas, Meldreth has a turkey farm which makes the train station HUM of feces. I could go on, but basically, yes the villages around Cam fucking REEK.

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lyingitOPAmerican in•

oh, it is absolutely awful by the train station, perhaps you are right.

I suppose over the next few years I'll get used to it, but it's still shocking to me that people put up with it.

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ladfrombradbradford.reddit.com•

You sure it's not just silage,, or have the farmers just been spreading dung all over the shop?

Kinda of weird I know, but having spent a fair time in Ireland and also on motorways in England, it doesn't seem to bother me too much.

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thejoyoflex•

I live in Cambridge, a few stops along the line... Can I ask why you chose to live in Shepreth? From what I understand it doesn't have much going for it!

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lyingitOPAmerican in•

I live in Bassingbourn actually, but go past Shepreth quite often on my way to Cambridge, and yesterday it was especially stinky.

I do like The Green Man pub off the A-10 (by a gardening place), thankfully it doesn't smell of animal waste there.

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[deleted]•

I grew up in Royston, my parents still live there. What do you reckon to it?

I believe it reeks partly due to the farms and partly due to the animal park. It doesn't stink ALL the time though, and not all of the surrounding area stinks, it depends which way the wind's blowing...

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lyingitOPAmerican in•

I like royston, and I like teh surrounding area too, but shepreth just baffles me, I don't get why the people that live there put up with the stank.

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