Cambridgeshire
Huntingdonshire
Grafham

Rectory Bay

Rectory Bay is a bay in , , .
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Grafham Water and Shepherd’s Close.

Reservoir
Photo: Shaun Ferguson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is an 806.3-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest north of . 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.

Nature reserve
Photo: Dudley Miles, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Shepherd's Close is a 1.2-hectare nature reserve south of in . It is managed by the Wildlife Trust for Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire.

Prison
Photo: Simonxag, Public domain.
is a Category C male prison in the village of near 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.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include St Neots and Huntingdon.

Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a riverside market town just north of the border between and . Despite some pretty parks and a few historic buildings, offers relatively little to entice the traveller, but is a pleasant enough stopover or base for touring the region.

Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
is a sleepy historic town in , , on the banks of the River Ouse, best known as the birthplace of English Civil War leader Oliver Cromwell.

Town
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is a town and civil parish in the district of , England. It is separated from , 1 mile to the north, by the valley of the River Great Ouse.

Rectory Bay

Latitude
52.3012° or 52° 18′ 4″ north
Longitude
-0.3001° or 0° 18′ 0″ west
Open location code
9C4X8M2X+FX
Open­Street­Map ID
node 9077869441
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­bay
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Satellite Map

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Localities in the Area

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include All Saints and All Saints (Grafham Parish Church).

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