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

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.
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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.
- 01Cainhoe 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 - 02St 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 - 03St 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 - 04Catholic 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 - 05Parish 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 - 06Chicksands 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
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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 Chicksands61 km · quickest by road, 1h 58m · £7–10
- London → Campton and Chicksands61 km · quickest by road, 1h 58m · £7–10
- Birmingham, West Midlands → Campton and Chicksands115 km · quickest by road, 2h 34m · £13–17
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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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.
- Get aroundA cycle route runs north–south through the town, mostly off-road, following the railway line.
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Next door to Campton and Chicksands
Campton and Chicksands is 53 km from Brent, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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- 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