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Whittlesford

Whittlesford is a village in Cambridgeshire, England, and also the name of an old hundred.

Whittlesford
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The place

Whittlesford is a village in Cambridgeshire, England, and also the name of an old hundred. The village is situated on the Granta branch of the River Cam, seven miles south of Cambridge. Whittlesford Parkway railway station serves the village.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Whittlesford

10 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
    Imperial War Museum Duxford

    Imperial War Museum Duxford, also known as IWM Duxford or simply Duxford, is a branch of the Imperial War Museum near Duxford in Cambridgeshire, England. Duxford, Britain's largest aviation museum, houses exhibits, including nearly 200 aircraft, military vehicles, artillery and small naval vessels in seven main exhibition buildings.

    2.7 km · Britain's largest aviation museum · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Sawston Hall

    Sawston Hall is a Grade I listed Tudor manor house in Sawston, Cambridgeshire dating from the 16th century. It has many fine features, such as the magnificent Great Hall complete with Elizabethan panelling and a large Tudor fireplace with fireback dated 1571.

    1.7 km · Grade I listed building in South Cambridgeshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Church of All Saints, Little Shelford

    The Church of All Saints is a Church of England parish church in Little Shelford, Cambridgeshire. The church is a Grade II* listed building, and dates from the 12th century.

    3.9 km · church in Little Shelford, Cambridgeshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    St John's Church, Duxford

    St John's Church, dedicated to St John the Baptist, is a redundant Anglican church in the village of Duxford, Cambridgeshire, England. In 1967 it was recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building, and is now vested in The Churches Conservation Trust.

    2.1 km · church in Duxford, Cambridgeshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Thriplow Meadows

    Thriplow Meadows is a 3.5-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Thriplow in Cambridgeshire. The site has two fields with neutral pastures which range from dry to marshy.

    3.9 km · UK site of special scientific interest for its ecological value · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Airborne Assault

    Airborne Assault – The Museum of the Parachute Regiment and Airborne Forces is based at Duxford in Cambridgeshire and tells the story of the Parachute Regiment and other airborne forces.

    2.3 km · military museum in the East of England, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Parish Church of St Peter

    St Peter's is an Anglican church in the village of Duxford, Cambridgeshire. From the early 12th century until the mid-19th century it was one of two active parish churches in the village, but their merger in 1874 saw St Peter's chosen as the sole parish church for the village.

    2.4 km · church in Duxford, England · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Parish Church of St Mary and St John the Evangelist

    St Mary and St John Church is a Church of England parish church in the village of Hinxton in Cambridgeshire. It is a medieval flint and rubble church in the early-English style.

    3.9 km · church in South Cambridgeshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Dernford Fen

    Dernford Fen is a 10.3-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest north-west of Sawston in Cambridgeshire. The site is a rare surviving example of rough fen and carr.

    2 km · UK Site of Special Scientific Interest · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Thriplow Peat Holes

    Thriplow Peat Holes is a 12.2-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest north-east of Thriplow in Cambridgeshire. The site has rare alder carr and fen habitats which have a wide variety of invertebrates, which is enhanced by ditches and ponds.

    2.5 km · UL site of special scientific interest for its ecology · Wikipedia

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Getting to Whittlesford

Airports
London Stansted (STN), 26 km · London Luton (LTN), 44 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 83 km
Stations
Whittlesford Parkway railway station, 1.5 km
  • Luton, Luton → Whittlesford
    47 km · quickest by road, 1h 10m · £5–7
  • London → Whittlesford
    70 km · quickest by road, 1h 52m · £7–10
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Whittlesford
    128 km · quickest by road, 2h 26m · £14–19
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Whittlesford

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 Whittlesford. 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

    188 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    349 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    350 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    518 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    553 km

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Around it

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