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 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.
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.
- 01Church 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 - 02Church 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 - 03Church 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 - 04Church 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 - 05Church 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 - 0636, 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 - 07Shortmead 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 - 08Sutton Packhorse Bridge
Sutton Packhorse Bridge is a Grade-II* listed building in Sutton, Bedfordshire.
1.7 km · bridge in Sutton, Bedfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 09Church 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.
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 → Potton69 km · quickest by road, 1h 58m · £7–10
- London → Potton69 km · quickest by road, 1h 58m · £7–10
- Nottingham, Leicestershire → Potton111 km · quickest by road, 2h 45m · £13–17
- 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 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.
- 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.
- 01177 km
- 02325 km
- 03372 km
- 04501 km
- 05536 km
If you know how people move in Potton – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
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