Dry Drayton
Dry Drayton is a village and civil parish about 5 miles (8 km) northwest of Cambridge in Cambridgeshire, England, listed as Draitone in the Domesday Book in 1086.
Dry Drayton is a village and civil parish about 5 miles (8 km) northwest of Cambridge in Cambridgeshire, England, listed as Draitone in the Domesday Book in 1086. It covers an area of 829 hectares.
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Worth seeing in and around Dry Drayton
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.
- 01Cambridge American Cemetery and Memorial
Cambridge American Cemetery and Memorial is a World War II American military war grave cemetery, lying between the villages of Coton and Madingley, 7 km north-west of Cambridge, England. The cemetery, dedicated in 1956, contains 3,811 American war dead and covers 30.5 acres.
3.4 km · cemetery in Cambridgeshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 02Institute of Continuing Education
The University of Cambridge Professional and Continuing Education, formerly the Institute of Continuing Education is a department of the University of Cambridge that provides continuing education programmes at undergraduate and postgraduate levels, ranging from undergraduate certificates to master's degrees. PACE is the world's oldest university department specialising in professional and continuing education, established in 1873.
1.9 km · Institute within the University of Cambridge · Wikipedia - 03Madingley Wood
Madingley Wood is a 15.4-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest near Madingley, on the western outskirts of Cambridge. The western part of this wood is ancient pedunculate oak, with other trees including ash and field maple, with hazel and hawthorn in the shrub layer.
3 km · biological Site of Special Scientific Interest · Wikipedia
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Getting to Dry Drayton
- Airports
- London Stansted (STN), 42 km · London Luton (LTN), 48 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 92 km
- London, Essex → Dry Drayton82 km · quickest by road, 2h 12m · £9–12
- Luton, Luton → Dry Drayton50 km · quickest by road, 1h 28m · £6–8
- London → Dry Drayton82 km · quickest by road, 2h 12m · £9–12
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No local-transport research exists yet for Dry Drayton
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 Dry Drayton. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- 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.
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