Village in Cambridgeshire, England

Wansford

Wansford is a village straddling the City of Peterborough and Huntingdonshire districts in the ceremonial county of Cambridgeshire, England.

Plan a trip to Wansford→From Nottingham, Leicestershire

Every way there

Nottingham, Leicestershire → Wansford
64 km · quickest by road, 1h 36m · £7–10
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Luton, Luton → Wansford
78 km · quickest by road, 2h · £9–12
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London, Essex → Wansford
121 km · quickest by road, 2h 59m · £13–17
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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 Wansford, 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 Wansford has

YScheduled flightsNottingham, Leicestershire (EMA), 67 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: Peterborough, 11 km.

52.583°, -0.417°

It had a population of 506 at the 2021 Census. It is situated 7 miles (11 km) west of Peterborough and 8 miles (13 km) miles south of Stamford. It is close to the county boundary with both Lincolnshire and Northamptonshire. The village is also located close to the A1 road and was on the route of the original Great North Road before the modern A1 was built. The village has since been bypassed by the A1 but the former Great North Road still exists through the village.

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