Alwalton
Alwalton is a village and civil parish in Cambridgeshire, England.
Alwalton is a village and civil parish in Cambridgeshire, England. Alwalton lies approximately 5 miles (8 km) west of Peterborough city centre. Alwalton is situated within Huntingdonshire which is a non-metropolitan district of Cambridgeshire as well as being a historic county of England. The village runs onto the Peterborough suburb of Orton Northgate, with which the administrative boundary runs along the A605 road, the northern side of the road being in Alwalton and the southern side in Orton Northgate. Alwalton overlooks the southern bank of the River Nene and is close to the line of Ermine Street or the A1 road, west of which lies the neighbouring village of Chesterton.
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Worth seeing in and around Alwalton
4 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Longthorpe Tower
Longthorpe Tower is a 14th-century three-storey tower in the Longthorpe area of Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, England. It is famous for its well-preserved set of medieval murals.
3.7 km · Grade I listed house in Longthorpe, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 02Nene Valley Railway
The Nene Valley Railway is a preserved railway in Cambridgeshire, England, running between Peterborough Nene Valley and Yarwell Junction. The line is 7+1⁄2 miles in length.
1.8 km · heritage railway in the United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 03Orton Pit
Orton Pit is a 145.8-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest on the southern outskirts of Peterborough in Cambridgeshire. It is also a Special Area of Conservation This extensive area of disused brick clay workings has the largest known population in Britain of great crested newts.
3.4 km · UK Site of Special Scientific Interest · Wikipedia - 04Pearl Assurance War Memorial
The Pearl Assurance War Memorial, also known as the Pearl Centre War Memorial, is a First World War memorial, designed by George Frampton for the Pearl Assurance Company. Erected in London in 1921, it was moved to Peterborough in 1991.
900 m · war memorial in Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Alwalton
- Airports
- East Midlands (EMA), 74 km · London Luton (LTN), 75 km · London Stansted (STN), 83 km
- Stations
- Peterborough/Sibson Airport, 3.9 km · Castor railway station, 2.8 km · Ferry Meadows railway station, 2.1 km · Orton Mere railway station, 3.5 km
- Nottingham, Leicestershire → Alwalton73 km · quickest by road, 1h 42m · £8–11
- Luton, Luton → Alwalton73 km · quickest by road, 1h 56m · £8–11
- London, Essex → Alwalton115 km · quickest by road, 2h 54m · £12–16
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Alwalton
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Alwalton. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
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If you know how people move in Alwalton – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Alwalton
Alwalton is 55 km from Leicester, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Castorvillage and civil parish in Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, England2.8 km
- Ailsworthvillage in Cambridgeshire, England, UK3.4 km
- Chestertonvillage in Huntingdonshire, Cambridgeshire, England, UK1.3 km
- Haddonvillage and civil parish in Huntingdonshire, Cambridgeshire, England, UK3.7 km
- Water Newtonvillage in Cambridgeshire, England, UK3 km
- Longthorpevillage in Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom3.7 km