Great Chesterford
Great Chesterford is a village and civil parish in the Uttlesford district of Essex, England.

Great Chesterford is a village and civil parish in the Uttlesford district of Essex, England. The village is 3 miles (5 km) north-west of Saffron Walden, its post town, 10 miles (16 km) south from Cambridge and about 25 miles (40 km) northwest from the city and Essex county town of Chelmsford. At the 2021 census the parish had a population of 1,775.
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Worth seeing in and around Great Chesterford
4 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.
- 01Wellcome Sanger Institute
The Wellcome Sanger Institute, previously known as The Sanger Centre and Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, is a non-profit British genomics and genetics research institute, primarily funded by the Wellcome Trust. It is located on the Wellcome Genome Campus by the village of Hinxton, outside Cambridge.
1.7 km · British genomics research institute · Wikipedia - 02Parish Church of St Mary Magdalen
St Mary Magdalene Church is the Church of England parish church in the village of Ickleton in Cambridgeshire. The church is a Grade I listed building.
1.8 km · church in South Cambridgeshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 03Parish Church of St Mary and St John the Evangelist
St Mary and St John Church is a Church of England parish church in the village of Hinxton in Cambridgeshire. It is a medieval flint and rubble church in the early-English style.
2.5 km · church in South Cambridgeshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 04Wellcome Genome Campus
The Wellcome Genome Campus is a scientific research campus built in the grounds of Hinxton Hall, Hinxton in Cambridgeshire, England.
2.4 km · scientific research campus built in the grounds of Hinxton Hall, located in the village of Hinxton, Cambridgeshire · Wikipedia
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Getting to Great Chesterford
- Airports
- London Stansted (STN), 20 km · London Luton (LTN), 45 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 80 km
- Stations
- Great Chesterford railway station, 900 m
- Luton, Luton → Great Chesterford47 km · quickest by road, 1h 19m · £6–7
- London → Great Chesterford66 km · quickest by road, 1h 47m · £7–9
- Nottingham, Leicestershire → Great Chesterford135 km · quickest by road, 2h 33m · £15–20
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No local-transport research exists yet for Great Chesterford
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 Great Chesterford. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
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If you know how people move in Great Chesterford – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Great Chesterford
- Littleburyvillage in Essex, England, United Kingdom3.8 km
- Ickletonvillage in Cambridgeshire, England, UK2.3 km
- Hinxtonvillage in South Cambridgeshire, England2.3 km
- Little Chesterfordvillage and civil parish in Essex, UK1.5 km
- Little Waldenvillage in Essex, England, UK3.8 km