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Caxton

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Caxton

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.

    2.6 km · 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.

    3.1 km · Visual arts centre, gallery and artists studios · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Elsworth Wood

    Elsworth Wood is a 6.9-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest between Cambourne and Elsworth in Cambridgeshire. This site has three different uncommon types of woodland.

    3.8 km · UK Site of Special Scientific Interest · 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.

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Getting to Caxton

Airports
London Luton (LTN), 41 km · London Stansted (STN), 42 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 86 km
Stations
Bourn Airfield, 3.4 km · Gransden Lodge Airfield, 3 km · RAF Bourn, 3.7 km
  • Luton, Luton → Caxton
    43 km · quickest by road, 1h 14m · £5–7
  • London, Essex → Caxton
    78 km · quickest by road, 2h 11m · £8–11
  • London → Caxton
    78 km · quickest by road, 2h 11m · £8–11
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Caxton

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Go nextMap of places with Wikivoyage articles nearby Grantchester: Take a day trip to enjoy the countryside and have scones and tea at The Orchard.

From Wikivoyage: Cambridge, 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

    189 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    336 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    361 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    500 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    534 km

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

Around it

Next door to Caxton

  • Cambournesettlement and civil parish in Cambridgeshire, England2.1 km
  • Eltisleyvillage in Cambridgeshire, England, UK3.6 km
  • Longstowevillage in Cambridgeshire, England, UK2.6 km
  • Bournvillage and civil parish in South Cambridgeshire, England, UK2.8 km