Swavesey
Swavesey is a village lying on the Prime Meridian of the world in Cambridgeshire, England, with a population of 2,463.

Swavesey is a village lying on the Prime Meridian of the world in Cambridgeshire, England, with a population of 2,463. The village is situated 9 miles to the north west of Cambridge and 3 miles south east of St Ives.
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Worth seeing in and around Swavesey
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.
- 01Mare Fen
Mare Fen is a 16.3 hectare Local Nature Reserve north of Swavesey in Cambridgeshire, England. It is owned by Cambridgeshire County Council, and was formerly managed by the Cambridgeshire and Isle of Ely Naturalists Trust, but as of December 2016 it is not listed on the Trust's web site.
1.4 km · park in United Kingdom · Wikipedia
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Getting to Swavesey
- Airports
- London Stansted (STN), 49 km · London Luton (LTN), 53 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 97 km
- London, Essex → Swavesey89 km · quickest by road, 2h 18m · £10–13
- Luton, Luton → Swavesey55 km · quickest by road, 1h 34m · £7–9
- London → Swavesey89 km · quickest by road, 2h 18m · £10–13
- 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 Swavesey
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 Swavesey. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- 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.
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