Foxton
Foxton is a small village in South Cambridgeshire, England. It has a number of well-preserved fifteenth- and sixteenth-century houses, and a thirteenth-century church dedicated to St Laurence.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Village with 1,120 residents
- Description: village and civil parish in Cambridgeshire, UK
- Also known as: “Foxton, Cambridgeshire”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Foxton railway station and Shepreth Wildlife Park.
Foxton railway station
Railway station
Photo: Tom Pullman, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Foxton railway station serves the village of Foxton in Cambridgeshire, England. It is 50 miles 77 chains from London King's Cross. The station is operated by Great Northern.
Rowley’s Hill
Peak
Photo: David Lamkin, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Rowley's Hill is a hill in Cambridgeshire, near the villages of Harston and Newton. Although of only moderate height, it has a relatively large prominence of 31 m due to it being surrounded on all sides by a 'moat' of much lower land.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Shepreth and Barrington.
Shepreth
Village
Photo: John Salmon, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Shepreth is a small village and civil parish lying halfway between Cambridge and Royston in South Cambridgeshire, England.
Barrington
Village
Photo: Cmglee, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Barrington is a small village and civil parish in the South Cambridgeshire district of Cambridgeshire, England. The village is about 7 miles south-west of Cambridge, between Haslingfield and Shepreth.
Harston
Village
Photo: Keith Edkins, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Harston is a village and civil parish in South Cambridgeshire, England, located around 5 miles south of Cambridge. In 2011, it had a population of 1,740. Harston is situated 1½ miles northeast of Foxton.
Foxton
- Categories: civil parish and locality
- Location: Foxton, South Cambridgeshire District, Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
52.11537° or 52° 6′ 55″ northLongitude
0.06157° or 0° 3′ 42″ eastPopulation
1,120Elevation
66 feet (20 metres)Open location code
9F424386+4JOpenStreetMap ID
node 27431798OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2649116Wikidata ID
Q11698548
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Foxton” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “فكستون”
- Arabic: “فکستون”
- Basque: “Foxton (Cambridgeshire)”
- Basque: “Foxton”
- Bengali: “ফক্সটন”
- Cebuano: “Foxton”
- Chinese: “Foxton”
- Chinese: “法克斯頓”
- Chinese: “法克斯顿”
- Dutch: “Foxton”
- Egyptian Arabic: “فکستون”
- French: “Foxton”
- German: “Foxton”
- Gujarati: “ફોક્સટન”
- Irish: “Foxton”
- Italian: “Foxton (Cambridgeshire)”
- Italian: “Foxton”
- Japanese: “フォックストン”
- Kannada: “ಫಾಕ್ಸ್ಟನ್”
- Korean: “폭스턴”
- Ladin: “Foxton (Cambridgeshire)”
- Ladin: “Foxton”
- Lithuanian: “Fokstonas”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Foxton (Cambridgeshire)”
- Persian: “فاکستون، کمبریجشر”
- Polish: “Foxton (Cambridgeshire)”
- Polish: “Foxton”
- Portuguese: “Foxton”
- Russian: “Фокстон”
- Spanish: “Foxton”
- Swedish: “Foxton, Cambridgeshire”
- Swedish: “Foxton”
- Tamil: “போஸ்ட்டண்”
- Telugu: “ఫాక్స్టన్”
- Turkish: “Foxton, Cambridgeshire”
- Urdu: “فوزٹن”
- Welsh: “Foxton, Swydd Gaergrawnt”
- Welsh: “Foxton”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include St Laurence (Foxton Parish Church) and Foxton Village Hall.
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