Little Paxton
Little Paxton in Cambridgeshire, England is a village and civil parish that lies 5 miles (8.0 km) south of Huntingdon and 1.7 miles (2.7 km) north of St Neots.

Little Paxton in Cambridgeshire, England is a village and civil parish that lies 5 miles (8.0 km) south of Huntingdon and 1.7 miles (2.7 km) north of St Neots. It is in the district and historic county of Huntingdonshire. Until the 1970s it was a minor village and the church was under threat of closure. The building of a housing estate and a junior school revived its fortunes and the establishment of the Paxton Pits Nature Reserve around part of the nearby gravel pits has brought visitors to the village.
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Worth seeing in and around Little Paxton
3 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.
- 01Little Paxton Wood
Little Paxton Wood is a 44.1-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest west of Little Paxton in Cambridgeshire. This ancient wood is wet ash and maple on heavy calcareous clay, with seasonally waterlogged soils, and it has an extremely diverse flora.
2.9 km · UK Site of Special Scientific Interest · Wikipedia - 02St Neots Common
St Neots Common is a 33.4-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in St Neots in Cambridgeshire. This site on the east bank of the River Great Ouse has grassland, willow carr, ditches and ponds, which support diverse wildlife species.
2.1 km · UK Site of Special Scientific Interest · Wikipedia - 03Riverside Miniature Railway
The Riverside Miniature Railway is a miniature railway in Riverside Park, Eaton Ford, St Neots, Cambridgeshire. Founded by Ivan Hewlett, the railway is run on a not-for-profit, community basis.
3.3 km · UK amusement park · Wikipedia
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Getting to Little Paxton
- Airports
- London Luton (LTN), 43 km · London Stansted (STN), 52 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 88 km
- Stations
- St. Neots railway station, 2 km
- Luton, Luton → Little Paxton43 km · quickest by road, 1h 20m · £5–7
- London, Essex → Little Paxton83 km · quickest by road, 2h 19m · £9–12
- London → Little Paxton83 km · quickest by road, 2h 19m · £9–12
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Little Paxton
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 Little Paxton. 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 Little Paxton – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
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