Bourn

Worth seeing in and around Bourn

3 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.

1. 01
   Bourn Castle

   Bourn Castle was in the village of Bourn in Cambridgeshire, 10 miles to the west of Cambridge. It originally consisted of wooden buildings on an earthwork enclosure which was erected by Picot of Cambridge around 1080, which was towards the end of the reign of William the Conqueror.

   500 m · castle in Cambridgeshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
2. 02
   Wysing Arts Centre

   Wysing Arts Centre is a contemporary arts residency centre and campus for artistic production, experimentation and learning in South Cambridgeshire, England. The centre was established in 1989 and completed a £1.7 million capital development project in 2008.

   1.1 km · Visual arts centre, gallery and artists studios · Wikipedia
3. 03
   Caldecote Meadows

   Caldecote Meadows is a 9.1-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Caldecote in Cambridgeshire. The site is herb-rich calcareous grassland, which was formerly common in the county, but is now rare.

   2.6 km · UK Site of Special Scientific Interest · Wikipedia

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Getting to Bourn

Airports

London Stansted (STN), 39 km · London Luton (LTN), 41 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 85 km

Stations

Bourn Airfield, 2.6 km · Gransden Lodge Airfield, 3.7 km · RAF Bourn, 3.2 km

• Luton, Luton → Bourn

  42 km · quickest by road, 1h 14m · £5–7
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• London → Bourn

  76 km · quickest by road, 2h 11m · £8–11
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• Nottingham, Leicestershire → Bourn

  112 km · quickest by road, 2h 45m · £12–17
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No local-transport research exists yet for Bourn

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 Bourn. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

If you know how people move in Bourn – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.