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Fen Drayton

Fen Drayton is a small village between Cambridge and St.

Fen Drayton
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The place

Fen Drayton is a small village between Cambridge and St. Ives in Cambridgeshire, England, and between the villages of Fenstanton and Swavesey.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Fen Drayton

5 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
    St Ives Bridge

    St Ives Bridge is a 15th-century stone arch bridge crossing the River Great Ouse on the south side of St Ives, Cambridgeshire, England. It carried the ancient main road to London over the river.

    3.9 km · Grade I listed deck arch bridge in Cambridgeshire, England · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Mare Fen

    Mare Fen is a 16.3 hectare Local Nature Reserve north of Swavesey in Cambridgeshire, England. It is owned by Cambridgeshire County Council, and was formerly managed by the Cambridgeshire and Isle of Ely Naturalists Trust, but as of December 2016 it is not listed on the Trust's web site.

    3.2 km · park in United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Statue of Oliver Cromwell

    A statue of Oliver Cromwell stands on Market Hill in St Ives, Cambridgeshire, England. It is a sculpture of Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland.

    3.8 km · statue in St Ives, Cambridgeshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Town Hall

    St Ives Town Hall is a municipal structure in Market Hill, St Ives, Cambridgeshire, England. The structure, which is the meeting place of St Ives Town Council, is a Grade II listed building.

    3.8 km · town hall in St Ives, Huntingdonshire, Cambridgeshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Sacred Heart Church, St Ives

    Sacred Heart Church is a Roman Catholic church that serves as the parish church of St Ives, Cambridgeshire. It was originally designed and built by Augustus Pugin in Cambridge as St Andrew's Church, but was dismantled in 1902 and transported by barge to St Ives.

    3.9 km · catholic church building in Saint Ives, Huntingdonshire, Cambridgeshire, 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 Fen Drayton

Airports
London Stansted (STN), 49 km · London Luton (LTN), 52 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 96 km
  • London, Essex → Fen Drayton
    88 km · quickest by road, 2h 20m · £10–13
  • Luton, Luton → Fen Drayton
    53 km · quickest by road, 1h 35m · £7–9
  • London → Fen Drayton
    88 km · quickest by road, 2h 20m · £10–13
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Fen 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 Fen 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

    199 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    342 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    354 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    494 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    529 km

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

Around it

Next door to Fen Drayton

  • Fenstantonvillage in Cambridgeshire, England, UK2.2 km
  • Swaveseyvillage in Cambridgeshire, England, UK2.6 km
  • Coningtonvillage in South Cambridgeshire District, United Kingdom2.8 km
  • Needingworthvillage in Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom3 km
  • Holywellvillage in Huntingdonshire, Cambridgeshire, UK2.5 km
  • Boxworth Endvillage in Cambridgeshire, England, UK2.6 km