Village in Bedfordshire, England

Cotton End

Cotton End is a small village and civil parish in Bedfordshire, England.

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Every way there

London, Essex → Cotton End
68 km · quickest by road, 2h 1m · £8–10
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London → Cotton End
68 km · quickest by road, 2h 1m · £8–10
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Birmingham, West Midlands → Cotton End
110 km · quickest by road, 2h 22m · £12–16
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

The field note

What is in and around Cotton End, ranked by how widely it is written about, how you reach it, and the nearest places where we have researched how people move.

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What Cotton End has

YScheduled flightsLuton, Luton (LTN), 25 km
FTrains and coachesTransitous carries 3 timetable feeds for this country, 2 with real-time; a stop for a place this small is unverified
NFerriesno crossing within 25 km
YDriving and taxiOpenStreetMap roads; cab fare from the country band
NBike and scooter shareno share feed known
NCruisesno open itinerary source anywhere

Y routable now · F found, not yet implemented · N no source known. Nearest place with more: Bedford, 5 km.

52.100°, -0.417°

It became a parish as of 1 April 2019, having previously been part of the parish of Eastcotts. It is within the Borough of Bedford. Ordnance Survey maps from the 1880s show its name as 'Cardington Cotton End'.

How locals move

Getting around Cotton End the local way

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. Last edited 2026-09.

Text adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Lamiot (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.