Village in Cambridgeshire, England

Oakington

Oakington is a small rural village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Oakington and Westwick, in the South Cambridgeshire district, in the county of Cambridgeshire, England, dating back to Roman times.

Plan a trip to Oakington→From London, Essex

Every way there

London, Essex → Oakington
85 km · quickest by road, 2h 15m · £9–13
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Luton, Luton → Oakington
54 km · quickest by road, 1h 31m · £7–9
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London → Oakington
85 km · quickest by road, 2h 15m · £9–13
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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 Oakington, 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 Oakington has

YScheduled flightsLondon, Essex (STN), 43 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: Cambridge, 8 km.

52.261°, 0.068°

It is seven miles (11 km) north-west of Cambridge. In 1961 the parish had a population of 698.

How locals move

Getting around Oakington the local way

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. Last edited 2026-09.

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