Little Paxton
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Little Paxton in Cambridgeshire, England is a village and civil parish that lies 5 miles (8.0 km) south of Huntingdon and 1.7 miles (2.7 km) north of St Neots. It is in the district and historic county of Huntingdonshire. Until the 1970s it was a minor village and the church was under threat of closure. The building of a housing estate and a junior school revived its fortunes and the establishment of the Paxton Pits Nature Reserve around part of the nearby gravel pits has brought visitors to the village.
Little Paxton | |
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High Street | |
Location within Cambridgeshire | |
Population | 3,244 (2011 census. Including Southoe)[1] |
OS grid reference | TL195628 |
• London | 51 miles (82 km) |
District | |
Shire county | |
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Country | England |
Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
Post town | ST. NEOTS |
Postcode district | PE19 6 |
Dialling code | 01480 |
Police | Cambridgeshire |
Fire | Cambridgeshire |
Ambulance | East of England |
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The nature reserve features lakes, woodland and part of the Ouse floodplain and is home to large numbers of cormorants and many summer visitors such as nightingales and a large number of passerine birds. Grebes, ducks and geese have colonised the lakes.
The population of the village of Little Paxton is now much larger than that of Great Paxton.