Grafham
Grafham is a village and civil parish in Cambridgeshire, England. The village lies approximately 5 miles south-west of Huntingdon. Grafham is situated within Huntingdonshire which is a non-metropolitan district of Cambridgeshire as well as being a historic county of England.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Paul Shreeve, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Village with 597 residents
- Description: village in Huntingdonshire, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom
- Also known as: “Graffham”, “Grafham, Cambridgeshire”, and “Grafham, Huntingdonshire”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Grafham Water and Shepherd’s Close.
Grafham Water
Reservoir
Photo: Shaun Ferguson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Grafham Water is an 806.3-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest north of Perry, Huntingdonshire. It was designated an SSSI in 1986. It is a reservoir with a circumference of about 16 km, is 21 m deep at maximum, and is the eighth largest reservoir in England by volume and the joint third largest by area at 6.27 km2.
Shepherd’s Close
Nature reserve
Photo: Dudley Miles, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Shepherd's Close is a 1.2-hectare nature reserve south of Spaldwick in Cambridgeshire. It is managed by the Wildlife Trust for Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire. Shepherd’s Close is situated 2 miles northwest of Grafham.
HM Prison Littlehey
Prison
Photo: Simonxag, Public domain.
HM Prison Littlehey is a Category C male prison in the village of Perry near Huntingdon in Cambridgeshire, England. Littlehey Prison is operated by His Majesty's Prison Service. The Prison only holds those that have been convicted of a sexual offence. HM Prison Littlehey is situated 2 miles south of Grafham.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Southoe and Stonely.
Southoe
Village
Photo: Eirian Evans, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Southoe is a small village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Southoe and Midloe, in Cambridgeshire, England. Southoe lies approximately 6 miles south-west of Huntingdon on the A1. Southoe is situated 3½ miles southeast of Grafham.
Stonely
Village
Stonely is a hamlet next to Kimbolton in Huntingdonshire district, Cambridgeshire, England. It is part of the civil parish of Kimbolton, which is served by Kimbolton and Stonely Parish Council. Stonely is situated 3½ miles west of Grafham.
Offord Cluny
Village
Photo: Kokai, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Offord Cluny is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Offord Cluny and Offord D'Arcy. It is 4.9 miles north of St Neots and 3 miles south-west of Huntingdon. Offord Cluny is situated 4 miles east of Grafham.
Grafham
- Categories: civil parish and locality
- Location: Grafham, Huntingdonshire, Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
52.30859° or 52° 18′ 31″ northLongitude
-0.29775° or 0° 17′ 52″ westPopulation
597Elevation
194 feet (59 metres)Open location code
9C4X8P52+CVOpenStreetMap ID
node 353684588OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2648242Wikidata ID
Q2759349
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Grafham” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “غرافهام”
- Arabic: “غرفهم”
- Bulgarian: “Графхам”
- Cebuano: “Grafham”
- Chinese: “Grafham”
- Dutch: “Grafham”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جرفهم”
- French: “Grafham”
- Irish: “Grafham”
- Italian: “Grafham”
- Ladin: “Grafham”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Grafham”
- Persian: “گرفهم، کمبریجشر”
- Polish: “Grafham”
- Swedish: “Grafham”
- Turkish: “Grafham, Cambridgeshire”
- Welsh: “Grafham, Swydd Gaergrawnt”
- Welsh: “Grafham”
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Highlights include Meadowground and All Saints (Grafham Parish Church).
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