Alconbury, United Kingdom
Alconbury is a town of 1,569 people in England, United Kingdom.
Why visit Alconbury
Townapedia lists 2 museums and landmarks, 3 parks and trails, 2 places to eat, 1 place to stay and 1 attraction in and around town.
Highlights include Alconbury Milestone and War Memorial.
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About Alconbury
Alconbury is a village and civil parish in Cambridgeshire, England. Alconbury is situated within Huntingdonshire which is a non-metropolitan district of Cambridgeshire as well as being an historic county of England.
From the Wikipedia article Alconbury (this version), under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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Museums and landmarks2
Parks, trails and playgrounds3
Restaurants and cafes2
History
Alconbury was listed as Acumesberie and Almundeburie in the Hundred of Leightonstone in Huntingdonshire in the Domesday Book of 1086. There was one manor 17.5 households at Alconbury. The survey records that there were 18 ploughlands with the capacity for a further two, and 80 acres (32 hectares) of meadows.
The church is dedicated to St Peter and St Paul. The Great North Road passed through the village and Alconbury Weston to the north-west. The A1 was dualled from Water Newton to Alconbury Hill in three stages in 1958. The £1.25 million 2-mile (3.2 km) A1 bypass opened in December 1964, joining the road at the point where it now meets the A1307 (former A604 and A14) at the junction at the top of a hill. It followed part of the former A604. In November 1998, the bypass was converted into the A1(M) which terminates next to the village. The former road is partly the B1043 which is also part of the former A14 and the rest of the former A1 to Peterborough.
Units of the US Air Force were based at Alconbury from 1942 to 1945, and then from 1953 to 1995.
From the History section of Alconbury on Wikipedia, under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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Geography
Alconbury is in the district of Huntingdonshire and gives its name to RAF Alconbury, as well as the new Alconbury Weald development, situated on the former airfield of RAF Alconbury. The village is near to the point where a major north–south trunk road, the A1, crosses the only major east–west trunk road: the A14. In 2005, there were proposals to convert the former airfield into a freight-only commercial airport to benefit from these surface links, however these proposals never came to fruition. Nearby, to the east, are The Stukeleys: Great Stukeley and Little Stukeley. Just north of the A1/A14 junction is Alconbury Hill.
From the Wikipedia article Alconbury, under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Where to stay1
Churches and places of worship3
Gas and EV charging1
Schools, colleges and libraries2
Map of Alconbury
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Getting there and nearby towns
Cambridge City Airport (CBG) is the nearest airport with scheduled flights listed in OpenStreetMap, 22 miles away.
- Huntingdon 4 mi southeast, about 7 min by car
- Kimbolton 7 mi southwest, about 12 min by car
- Saint Ives 8 mi east, about 13 min by car
- Saint Neots 11 mi south, about 17 min by car
- Earith 12 mi east, about 20 min by car
- Riseley 12 mi southwest, about 20 min by car
- Ringstead 12 mi west, about 20 min by car
- Peterborough 14 mi north, about 23 min by car
- Whittlesey 14 mi northeast, about 23 min by car
- Rushden 15 mi west, about 25 min by car
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- Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0): overview and history text
Photo credits
- Milestone - Alconbury Hill, Smb1001, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Street-level photo, cyclestreets, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Street-level photo, adam2, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Street-level photo, cyclestreets, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Street-level photo, cyclestreets, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Street-level photo, adam2, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Street-level photo, adam2, CC BY-SA 4.0
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