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Photo of Shepreth Wildlife Park, a visitor attraction near Barrington, Cambridgeshire, eastern England.

Shepreth Wildlife Park© Hugh Venables / Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0

Places to explore near Foxton StationFoxton

42 places within 10 km — the standouts first, nearest first within each group.

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Photo of Shepreth Wildlife Park, a visitor attraction near Barrington, Cambridgeshire, eastern England.Highlight

Shepreth Wildlife Park

Attraction near Barrington

A small, friendly wildlife park between Cambridge and Royston, home to red pandas, big cats and a bug house.

1.5 km W

Photo of Queen's Head, a pub near Newton, Cambridgeshire, eastern England.Highlight

Queen's Head

Pub near Newton

A simple two-room village local of scrubbed tables and settles serving Adnams by gravity, soup and sandwiches only.

3 km E

Photo of Imperial War Museum Duxford, a visitor attraction near Barrington, Cambridgeshire, eastern England.Highlight

Imperial War Museum Duxford

Attraction near Barrington

Europe's largest air museum, on a surviving Battle of Britain airfield, with hangars of historic aircraft and regular flying displays.

5.6 km SE

Photo of Wimpole Estate, a Grade I registered house & garden near Barrington, Cambridgeshire, eastern England.Highlight

Wimpole Estate

House & garden near Barrington

Grand mansion with folly and vast parkland.

7.1 km W

Photo of Grantchester, a village in Cambridgeshire, eastern England.Highlight

Grantchester

Village

Thatched village on the Cam where meadow paths lead in from Cambridge to the Orchard tea garden Rupert Brooke made famous.

7.1 km N · Cambridgeshire

Photo along the Hertfordshire Way, a 195-mile long-distance path in eastern England.Highlight

Hertfordshire Way

Long-distance path

Hertfordshire's grand circuit from the Royce Stone at Royston — chalk streams, commons and country houses for nearly 200 miles.

9.5 km SW · Hertfordshire

Photo of Cambridge University Botanic Garden, a Grade II* registered house & garden in Cambridgeshire, eastern England.Highlight

Cambridge University Botanic Garden

House & garden near Cambridge

Founded in 1846 by Darwin's teacher, forty acres of beds and glasshouses.

9.6 km NE

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Barrington

Village

Home to one of the longest village greens in England, edged by thatched cottages and a much-loved pub south of Cambridge.

1.6 km NW · Cambridgeshire

Cam Valley Orchards

Farm & farm shop near Meldreth

Meldreth orchard and farm shop pressing its own apple juice and cider, open weekends through the autumn and winter.

4.5 km SW

Photo along the Icknield Way Path, a 110-mile long-distance path running from Ivinghoe Beacon to Knettishall Heath, England.

Icknield Way Path

Long-distance path

The missing middle of the 'oldest road in Britain', linking the Ridgeway at Ivinghoe Beacon to the Peddars Way at Knettishall Heath.

6.8 km S · spans 7 counties

Photo of St Mary the Virgin, Grantchester, a church in Cambridgeshire, eastern England.

St Mary the Virgin, Grantchester

Church near Grantchester

The mellow riverside church at the heart of Rupert Brooke's Grantchester, its clock immortalised in his wartime poem.

7.1 km N

The Cambridge Distillery

Distillery near Grantchester

A pioneering gin distillery near Cambridge offering tastings and make-your-own-gin experiences with foraged local botanicals.

7.2 km N

Photo of The John Barleycorn, a pub near Duxford, Cambridgeshire, eastern England.

The John Barleycorn

Pub near Duxford

Pretty thatched-and-timbered inn at Duxford, an old drovers' pub near the war museum with a flower-decked frontage.

7.5 km E

Photo of Duxford Chapel, a ruined chapel near Linton, Cambridgeshire, eastern England.

Duxford Chapel

Chapel near Linton

Small, intact chantry chapel of the 1300s beside Whittlesford Parkway station, which may first have belonged to a medieval hospital.

7.9 km E

Photo of Coton Country Park, a country park near Grantchester, Cambridgeshire, eastern England.

Coton Country Park

Country park near Grantchester

A country park in Cambridgeshire.

8.3 km N

Photo of Wandlebury Country Park, a country park near Grantchester, Cambridgeshire, eastern England.

Wandlebury Country Park

Country park near Grantchester

A country park in Cambridgeshire.

9.3 km NE

Everything else within 10 km (26) — reserves, earthworks & places to check before travelling

Ordered by how far each place is worth travelling for, then by distance. Distances are straight-line to the nearest edge of each place — paths wind, of course.