Hinxton

Hinxton
Village centre: memorial cross, mini-library in a red telephone box, and the parish church
Hinxton is located in Cambridgeshire
Hinxton
Hinxton
Location within Cambridgeshire
Population320 
OS grid referenceTL496450
Shire county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townSAFFRON WALDEN
Postcode districtCB10
Dialling code01799
UK Parliament
List of places
UK
England
Cambridgeshire
52°04′59″N 0°10′59″E / 52.083°N 0.183°E / 52.083; 0.183

Hinxton is a village in South Cambridgeshire, England.

The River Cam runs through the village, as does the Cambridge to Liverpool Street railway, though the village has no station. Hinxton parish's southern boundaries form the border between Cambridgeshire and Essex. The village is five miles (8 km) north-west of Saffron Walden and nine miles (14 km) south of Cambridge. The 2001 population was 315.[1]

Hinxton is the home of the Wellcome Genome Campus, which includes the Wellcome Sanger Institute and the European Bioinformatics Institute.

  1. ^ "Hinxton" (PDF). Census. 2001. Archived from the original (PDF) on 9 June 2011.