Whaddon
Whaddon is a village and civil parish in South Cambridgeshire, England, 6 kilometres north of Royston.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Alan Kent, CC BY-SA 2.0.
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- Type: Village with 565 residents
- Description: a village located in South Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom
- Also known as: “Whaddon, Cambridgeshire”
Places of Interest
Highlights include RAF Bassingbourn and Meldreth railway station.
RAF Bassingbourn
Aerodrome
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Royal Air Force Bassingbourn or more simply RAF Bassingbourn is a former Royal Air Force station located in Cambridgeshire approximately 3 mi north of Royston, Hertfordshire and 11 mi south west of Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England.
Meldreth railway station
Railway station
Photo: Keith Edkins, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Meldreth railway station serves the villages of Meldreth and Melbourn in Cambridgeshire, England. It is 47 miles 75 chains from London King's Cross on the Cambridge Line. Meldreth railway station is situated 2 miles east of Whaddon.
Bassingbourn Barracks
Military installation
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Bassingbourn Barracks is a Ministry of Defence installation located 3.2 miles north of Royston, Hertfordshire and 10.6 miles southwest of Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Bassingbourn cum Kneesworth and Meldreth.
Bassingbourn cum Kneesworth
Village
Photo: Mike W Hallett, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Bassingbourn cum Kneesworth is a civil parish in the South Cambridgeshire district of Cambridgeshire, England, 14 miles south-west of Cambridge and just north of Royston, Hertfordshire.
Meldreth
Village
Photo: mym, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Meldreth is a village and civil parish in South Cambridgeshire, England, located around 10 miles south-west of Cambridge. At the 2011 Census, the population of the parish was 1,783. Meldreth is situated 1½ miles east of Whaddon.
Wendy
Village
Photo: mym, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Wendy is a hamlet and former civil parish, now in the parish of Shingay cum Wendy, in the South Cambridgeshire district, in the county of Cambridgeshire, England around 5 miles north west of Royston. In 1951 the parish had a population of 81. Wendy is situated 2 miles northwest of Whaddon.
Whaddon
- Categories: civil parish and locality
- Location: Whaddon, South Cambridgeshire District, Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
52.10023° or 52° 6′ 1″ northLongitude
-0.03061° or 0° 1′ 50″ westPopulation
565Elevation
72 feet (22 metres)Open location code
9C4X4X29+3QOpenStreetMap ID
node 34956468OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2634199Wikidata ID
Q2633987
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Whaddon” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “وهددن”
- Cebuano: “Whaddon (kapital sa parokya)”
- Cebuano: “Whaddon”
- Chinese: “Whaddon”
- Dutch: “Whaddon”
- Egyptian Arabic: “وهددن”
- French: “Whaddon”
- Irish: “Whaddon”
- Italian: “Whaddon (Cambridgeshire)”
- Italian: “Whaddon”
- Ladin: “Whaddon (Cambridgeshire)”
- Ladin: “Whaddon”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Whaddon (Cambridgeshire)”
- Persian: “واددون، کمبریجشر”
- Polish: “Whaddon”
- Swedish: “Whaddon (parishhuvudort)”
- Swedish: “Whaddon, Cambridgeshire”
- Welsh: “Whaddon, Swydd Gaergrawnt”
- Welsh: “Whaddon”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include St Mary (Whaddon Parish Church) and Whaddon Village Hall.
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Whaddon”. Photo: Alan Kent, CC BY-SA 2.0.