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Godmanchester

Godmanchester is a town and civil parish in the Huntingdonshire district of Cambridgeshire, England.

Godmanchester
Godmanchester · Wyld, William (Public domain)
The place

Godmanchester is a town and civil parish in the Huntingdonshire district of Cambridgeshire, England. It is separated from Huntingdon, 1 mile (1.6 km) to the north, by the valley of the River Great Ouse. Being on the Roman road network the town has a long history. It has a waterside location and is surrounded by open countryside of high value for its biodiversity but it remains highly accessible, with a railway line to London, the A1 road and M11/A14, which run nearby.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Godmanchester

10 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
    Huntingdon

    Huntingdon is a market town in the Huntingdonshire district of Cambridgeshire, England. The town was given its town charter by King John in 1205.

    2.1 km · market town and civil parish in Cambridgeshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Huntingdon Castle

    Huntingdon Castle was situated in the town of Huntingdon in Cambridgeshire.

    1.2 km · castle in England · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Church of St Mary

    The Church of St Mary the Virgin is a Church of England parish church in Godmanchester, Cambridgeshire. The church is a Grade I listed building with its earliest phase dating to the 13th century.

    300 m · historic church in Godmanchester, Huntingdonshire, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Old Bridge, Huntingdon

    The Old Bridge between Huntingdon and Godmanchester is a well-preserved medieval stone bridge over the River Great Ouse.

    1.1 km · Grade I listed bridge in Huntingdon, England · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Cromwell Museum

    The Cromwell Museum in Huntingdon, England, is a museum containing collections exploring the life of Oliver Cromwell and to a lesser extent his son Richard Cromwell. Oliver Cromwell was born in Huntingdon in 1599 and lived there for more than half his life.

    1.7 km · museum in Huntingdon, England, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    St Peter's Church, Offord D'Arcy

    St Peter's Church is a redundant Anglican church in the village of Offord D'Arcy, Cambridgeshire, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building, and is under the care of the Churches Conservation Trust.

    5 km · church in Huntingdonshire, UK · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Hinchingbrooke House

    Hinchingbrooke House is an English stately home in Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, now part of Hinchingbrooke School. The house was built around an 11th-century Benedictine nunnery.

    2.3 km · building in Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    The Manor

    The Manor is a house in the village of Hemingford Grey, Cambridgeshire. It was built around 1160, or may have been built as early as the 1130s and is one of the oldest continuously inhabited houses in Britain — sometimes claimed by some to be the oldest, although this is disputed, with the officially recognised oldest continually occupied house in Britain being in Saltford.

    4.3 km · house in Huntingdonshire, England · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Church of St Margaret

    St Margaret's Church, in Hemingford Abbots is a Church of England church, dedicated to Saint Margaret of Antioch. A church has stood on the site since at least 1086, for it is mentioned in the Domesday Record.

    3.7 km · Grade I listed church in Hemingford Abbots, Huntingdonshire, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    All Saints' Church, Huntingdon

    All Saints' Church is a Church of England church located in Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, England. There have been multiple churches on the site of this one.

    1.7 km · Grade I listed church in Huntingdonshire, United Kingdom · 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.

Go there

Getting to Godmanchester

Airports
London Luton (LTN), 51 km · London Stansted (STN), 56 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 96 km
Stations
Huntingdon railway station, 1.8 km · Buckden railway station, 4.5 km · Godmanchester railway station, 1 km
  • Luton, Luton → Godmanchester
    52 km · quickest by road, 1h 35m · £6–8
  • London, Essex → Godmanchester
    90 km · quickest by road, 2h 25m · £11–14
  • London → Godmanchester
    90 km · quickest by road, 2h 25m · £11–14
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Godmanchester

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

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    197 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    335 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    362 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    486 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    521 km

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

Around it

Next door to Godmanchester

  • Bramptonvillage and civil parish in Cambridgeshire, England, UK4.2 km
  • Hemingford Abbotsvillage in Cambridgeshire, England, UK4.9 km
  • Graveleyvillage and civil parish in Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom5.9 km
  • Hemingford Greyvillage in Huntingdonshire, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom4.7 km
  • The Stukeleyscivil parish in Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom5.5 km
  • Offord D'Arcyvillage in Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom4.5 km