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Potton

Potton is a town and civil parish in the Central Bedfordshire district of Bedfordshire, England, about 10 miles (16 km) east of the county town Bedford.

Potton
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The place

Potton is a town and civil parish in the Central Bedfordshire district of Bedfordshire, England, about 10 miles (16 km) east of the county town Bedford. The parish, which includes the hamlet of Deepdale, had a population of 5,728 in 2021. In 1783 the Great Fire of Potton destroyed a large part of the town. The parish church dates from the 13th century, and is dedicated to St Mary. Potton's horse fairs were some of the largest in the country.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Potton

9 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
    Church of All Saints, Sutton, Bedfordshire

    Church of All Saints is a Grade I listed church in Sutton, Bedfordshire, England. It became a listed building on 31 October 1966.

    1.7 km · Grade I listed church in Sutton, Bedfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Church of St Mary the Virgin

    The Church of St Mary the Virgin is the parish church for the village of Gamlingay in Cambridgeshire and is dedicated to St Mary the Virgin. Gamlingay is part of the ecclesiastical parish of Gamlingay with Hatley St George and East Hatley.

    3.6 km · church in South Cambridgeshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Church of St Mary, Everton, Bedfordshire

    Church of St Mary is a Grade I listed church in Everton, Bedfordshire, England. It became a listed building on 26 November 1986.

    2.9 km · church in Everton, Bedfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Church of St Peter, Wrestlingworth

    Church of St Peter is a Grade I listed church in Wrestlingworth, Bedfordshire, England. It became a listed building on 31 October 1966.

    4 km · church in Wrestlingworth, Bedfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Church of St Andrew

    St Andrew's Church is the Anglican parish church for the town of Biggleswade in Bedfordshire, England. The church is Grade II* listed and comes under the Diocese of St Albans.

    5.7 km · church in Biggleswade, Bedfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    36, High Street

    The Old Town Hall is a former municipal building in the High Street, Biggleswade, Bedfordshire, England. The structure, which most recently operated as a restaurant, is a Grade II listed building.

    5.5 km · building in Biggleswade, Central Bedfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Shortmead House

    Shortmead House in Biggleswade, Bedfordshire, is a two-storey Georgian manor house, first mentioned in 1543. It is Grade II listed.

    4.7 km · grade II listed English country house in Biggleswade, Central Bedfordshire, Bedfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Sutton Packhorse Bridge

    Sutton Packhorse Bridge is a Grade-II* listed building in Sutton, Bedfordshire.

    1.7 km · bridge in Sutton, Bedfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Church of St Mary, Potton

    The Parish Church of St Mary is the Anglican parish church for Potton in Bedfordshire. It has been a Grade I listed building since 1966 and comes under the Diocese of St Albans.

    500 m · church in Potton, Bedfordshire, England, UK · 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 Potton

Airports
London Luton (LTN), 30 km · London Stansted (STN), 41 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 75 km
Stations
Sandy railway station, 4.5 km · Biggleswade railway station, 5.6 km · Potton railway station, 400 m
  • London, Essex → Potton
    69 km · quickest by road, 1h 58m · £7–10
  • London → Potton
    69 km · quickest by road, 1h 58m · £7–10
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Potton
    111 km · quickest by road, 2h 45m · £13–17
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Potton

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get aroundA cycle route runs north–south through the town, mostly off-road, following the railway line.

From Wikivoyage: Biggleswade, 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

    177 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    325 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    372 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    501 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    536 km

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

Around it

Next door to Potton

  • Sandytown and civil parish in Bedfordshire, England, UK5.6 km
  • Biggleswadetown in Bedfordshire, England, UK5.4 km
  • Duntonvillage and civil parish in Bedfordshire, UK5.1 km
  • Evertonvillage and civil parish in Bedfordshire, England, UK3 km
  • Gamlingayvillage in Cambridgeshire, England, UK3.7 km
  • Eyeworthvillage and civil parish in Bedfordshire, UK4.4 km