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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
Dry Drayton · Wikimedia Commons
The place

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.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

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.

  1. 01
    Cambridge 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
  2. 02
    Institute 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
  3. 03
    Madingley 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 Drayton
    82 km · quickest by road, 2h 12m · £9–12
  • Luton, Luton → Dry Drayton
    50 km · quickest by road, 1h 28m · £6–8
  • London → Dry Drayton
    82 km · quickest by road, 2h 12m · £9–12
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Not yet researched

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.

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

    195 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    344 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    353 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    502 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    536 km

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Around it

Next door to Dry Drayton

  • Bar Hillvillage and civil parish in South Cambridgeshire, England, UK1.7 km
  • Hardwickvillage and civil parish in South Cambridgeshire, Cambridgeshire, England2.9 km
  • Lolworthvillage in Cambridgeshire, England, UK2.6 km
  • Madingleyvillage in South Cambridgeshire, England2 km
  • Boxworthvillage in South Cambridgeshire, England, UK4 km
  • Childerleyvillage in Cambridgeshire, England, UK2.7 km