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Knapwell

Knapwell is a village in Cambridgeshire situated about 10 miles (16 km) west of Cambridge.

Knapwell
Knapwell · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Knapwell is a village in Cambridgeshire situated about 10 miles (16 km) west of Cambridge. It is within the diocese of Ely. Its population was estimated at 110 in 2001. At the 2011 census the population had fallen to fewer than 100.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Knapwell

One place 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
    Elsworth Wood

    Elsworth Wood is a 6.9-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest between Cambourne and Elsworth in Cambridgeshire. This site has three different uncommon types of woodland.

    2.4 km · UK Site of Special Scientific Interest · 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 Knapwell

Airports
London Stansted (STN), 45 km · London Luton (LTN), 47 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 91 km
Stations
RAF Bourn, 3.8 km
  • London, Essex → Knapwell
    81 km · quickest by road, 2h 18m · £9–13
  • Luton, Luton → Knapwell
    47 km · quickest by road, 1h 27m · £6–8
  • London → Knapwell
    81 km · quickest by road, 2h 18m · £9–13
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Knapwell

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 Knapwell. 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

    194 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    340 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    357 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    498 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    532 km

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

Around it

Next door to Knapwell

  • Cambournesettlement and civil parish in Cambridgeshire, England3.8 km
  • Elsworthvillage and civil parish in Cambridgeshire, UK1.8 km
  • Lolworthvillage in Cambridgeshire, England, UK3.7 km
  • Coningtonvillage in South Cambridgeshire District, United Kingdom3.2 km
  • Boxworthvillage in South Cambridgeshire, England, UK1.9 km
  • Childerleyvillage in Cambridgeshire, England, UK2.7 km