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Ickleton

Ickleton is a village and civil parish about 9 miles (14 km) south of Cambridge in Cambridgeshire, England.

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The place

Ickleton is a village and civil parish about 9 miles (14 km) south of Cambridge in Cambridgeshire, England. The village is beside the River Cam, close to where a southern branch of the Icknield Way crossed the river. The eastern and southern boundaries of the parish form part of the county boundary with Essex, and the Essex town of Saffron Walden is only about 4.5 miles (7 km) southeast of the village.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Ickleton

8 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
    Wellcome 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.

    900 m · British genomics research institute · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    St John's Church, Duxford

    St John's Church, dedicated to St John the Baptist, is a redundant Anglican church in the village of Duxford, Cambridgeshire, England. In 1967 it was recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building, and is now vested in The Churches Conservation Trust.

    2.9 km · church in Duxford, Cambridgeshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Parish 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.

    200 m · church in South Cambridgeshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Parish Church of St Peter

    St Peter's is an Anglican church in the village of Duxford, Cambridgeshire. From the early 12th century until the mid-19th century it was one of two active parish churches in the village, but their merger in 1874 saw St Peter's chosen as the sole parish church for the village.

    2.6 km · church in Duxford, England · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Airborne Assault

    Airborne Assault – The Museum of the Parachute Regiment and Airborne Forces is based at Duxford in Cambridgeshire and tells the story of the Parachute Regiment and other airborne forces.

    4 km · military museum in the East of England, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Parish 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.

    1.5 km · church in South Cambridgeshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Duxford Chapel

    Duxford Chapel is a chapel that was once part of the Hospital of St. John, founded by William de Colville at Duxford, in Cambridgeshire, England.

    3.6 km · chapel in Whittlesford, Cambridgeshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Wellcome Genome Campus

    The Wellcome Genome Campus is a scientific research campus built in the grounds of Hinxton Hall, Hinxton in Cambridgeshire, England.

    1.3 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 Ickleton

Airports
London Stansted (STN), 21 km · London Luton (LTN), 43 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 80 km
Stations
Whittlesford Parkway railway station, 3.6 km · Great Chesterford railway station, 1.8 km
  • Luton, Luton → Ickleton
    46 km · quickest by road, 1h 15m · £5–7
  • London → Ickleton
    66 km · quickest by road, 1h 50m · £7–9
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Ickleton
    133 km · quickest by road, 2h 32m · £14–19
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Ickleton

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 Ickleton. 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

    185 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    349 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    350 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    523 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    557 km

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