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Campton and Chicksands

Campton and Chicksands is a civil parish in the Central Bedfordshire district of Bedfordshire, England.

Campton and Chicksands
Campton and Chicksands · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Campton and Chicksands is a civil parish in the Central Bedfordshire district of Bedfordshire, England. Its main settlements are Campton and Chicksands. At the 2021 census the parish had a population of 1,895.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Campton and Chicksands

6 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
    Cainhoe Castle

    Cainhoe Castle was an 11th-century Norman castle, located near the village of Clophill, in the county of Bedfordshire, England. Cainhoe Castle was a motte and triple bailey castle, built by Nigel d'Aubigny, a Norman Knight, sometime after the Norman Invasion.

    3.3 km · 11th century Norman castle in England · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    St Marys Church, Clophill

    The present St Mary's Church is located in the centre of the small village of Clophill, between Bedford and Luton in the county of Bedfordshire in the East of England. The new church, built in 1848, replaced the old church by order of the Church Commissioners in 1850.

    3.9 km · church in Clophill, Bedfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    St Mary's Church

    St Mary's Church is a redundant Anglican church in the village of Lower Gravenhurst, Bedfordshire, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building, and is under the care of the Churches Conservation Trust.

    3.3 km · church in Lower Gravenhurst, Bedfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Catholic Church of St Francis of Assisi

    St Francis of Assisi Church is a Catholic parish church in Shefford, Bedfordshire. The church was built from 1882 to 1884 and designed by Samuel Joseph Nicholl in the Gothic Revival style, and includes the remains of a chapel built in 1791.

    1.7 km · Catholic church building in Shefford, Central Bedfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Parish Church of All Saints, Campton

    The Church of All Saints is the Anglican parish church in the village of Campton, Shefford, Bedfordshire, England. Its official title is Campton and Chicksands Parish and encompasses the villages of Campton and Chicksands and the nearby military base, despite the base having its own church dedicated to Saint Gilbert of Sempringham.

    200 m · church in Bedfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Chicksands Priory

    Chicksands Priory is a former monastic house at Chicksands in Bedfordshire.

    1.6 km · Grade I listed country house in Bedfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Go there

Getting to Campton and Chicksands

Airports
London Luton (LTN), 17 km · London Stansted (STN), 43 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 62 km
  • London, Essex → Campton and Chicksands
    61 km · quickest by road, 1h 58m · £7–10
  • London → Campton and Chicksands
    61 km · quickest by road, 1h 58m · £7–10
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Campton and Chicksands
    115 km · quickest by road, 2h 34m · £13–17
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Campton and Chicksands

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get aroundA cycle route runs north–south through the town, mostly off-road, following the railway line.

From Wikivoyage: Biggleswade, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    163 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    313 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    386 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    504 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    539 km

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

Around it

Next door to Campton and Chicksands

Campton and Chicksands is 53 km from Brent, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Sheffordtown and civil parish in Central Bedfordshire, UK1.9 km
  • Shillingtonvillage and civil parish in Bedfordshire, England, UK3.9 km
  • Meppershallvillage and civil parish in Bedfordshire, UK1.6 km
  • Chicksandsvillage in Bedfordshire, England, UK1.1 km
  • Gravenhurstcivil parish in Central Bedfordshire, Bedfordshire, England, UK3.2 km
  • Stondonvillage and civil parish in Bedfordshire, UK3.8 km