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Chawston

Chawston is a hamlet in the civil parish of Wyboston, Chawston and Colesden, a part of the Borough of Bedford in the county of Bedfordshire, England.

Chawston
Chawston · Dudley Miles
The place

Chawston is a hamlet in the civil parish of Wyboston, Chawston and Colesden, a part of the Borough of Bedford in the county of Bedfordshire, England.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Chawston

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
    Eaton Socon Castle

    Eaton Socon Castle was a Norman fortification. It was constructed next to the River Great Ouse in what is now Eaton Socon, Cambridgeshire, England.

    3.4 km · castle in Eaton Socon, Cambridgeshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Tempsford Memorial

    The Tempsford Memorial is a war memorial in the village of Tempsford in Bedfordshire. The village was the home of RAF Tempsford.

    3.3 km · war memorial in the village of Tempsford in Bedfordshire, to the women of the Special Operations Executive · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    St Denys' Church, Little Barford

    St Denys' Church is a redundant Anglican church in the village of Little Barford, Bedfordshire, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building, and is under the care of the Churches Conservation Trust.

    2.6 km · redundant Anglican church in the village of Little Barford, 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.

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Getting to Chawston

Airports
London Luton (LTN), 36 km · London Stansted (STN), 51 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 81 km
  • London, Essex → Chawston
    77 km · quickest by road, 2h 3m · £8–11
  • London → Chawston
    77 km · quickest by road, 2h 3m · £8–11
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Chawston
    102 km · quickest by road, 2h 37m · £12–16
  • From anywhere
    The planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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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.

Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Chawston

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 Chawston. 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

    181 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    321 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    376 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    491 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    526 km

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

Around it

Next door to Chawston