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Stilton

Parish in Huntingdonshire, Cambridgeshire, England

Coordinates:52.491, -0.296
OS grid ref:TL 15 89
Population:2,455
Dialling code: 01733 (Peterborough)
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Stilton is a small village and civil parish in Huntingdonshire, Cambridgeshire, England, sitting close to the line of the historic Great North Road and the modern A1 between Peterborough and Stamford. Its position on the Fen-edge countryside gives a compact high street with traditional coaching inns and several listed buildings that hint at its importance to travellers in the 18th and 19th centuries.

The village is best known for giving its name to Stilton cheese: the blue cheese was traditionally sold in local inns, though the protected Stilton PDO means the cheese today is only made in Derbyshire, Leicestershire and Nottinghamshire. Local life remains shaped by agriculture, small businesses and visitors curious about the cheese link and the surviving coaching-house legacy, making it a modest but historically rich community.

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Transport links

  • Luton Airport 42.7 miles68.7 km
  • Stansted Airport 47.5 miles76.5 km
  • Peterborough Railway Station 6.1 miles9.8 km
  • Whittlesea Railway Station 8.5 miles13.7 km

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Local points of interest

  • Sawtry Abbey Historic site 5 miles8 km
  • Walcot Hall Estate 5.2 miles8.4 km
  • London Road Stadium Stadium 5.6 miles9 km
  • Peterborough Museum and Art Gallery Museum 6 miles9.6 km
  • Monks Wood National Nature Reserve Nature reserve 6.6 miles10.6 km
  • Must Farm Pile-dwelling Site Archaeological site 6.7 miles10.8 km
  • Fengate Archaeological site 7.2 miles11.6 km
  • Lyveden New Bield Historic site 11.1 miles17.8 km
  • Huntingdon Racecourse Recreation 11.1 miles17.9 km
  • Burghley House Historic site 12.4 miles19.9 km
  • Spanhoe Wood Forest 14.1 miles22.7 km
  • Normanton Park Estate 16.7 miles26.8 km