Hinxton

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Hinxton

Total population

315

Coordinates52.08°, 0.18°

Demographic figures from UK Office for National Statistics. Overview below cites Wikipedia and may reference a different year.

Overview

Hinxton is a village in South Cambridgeshire, England.

Geography

Coordinates & boundaries from the US Census TIGER/Line shapefiles.

Notable people from here

Charles Dunstone

British businessman

W

William Strachey

English writer

F

Frederick Edward Raven

civil servant in the British Admiralty and preacher (1837-1903)

Theophilus Howard, 2nd Earl of Suffolk

English Earl

O

Owen Finlay Maclaren

British businessman (1907-1978)

Thomas Smith

16th-century English scholar and diplomat

Al Jones

English musician (1945-2008)

Andrew Hunter Dunn

Anglican Bishop of Quebec

Anne Turner

English convicted murderer

A

Ashton Wade

British Army general (1898-1996)

C

Christopher Hawkins

British politician (born 1937)

H

Heather Craney

British actress

Henry Winstanley

English engineer and painter (1644-1703)

Lord William Howard

English nobleman and antiquarian

J

James Adams

English cricketer (1811-1851)

John Gambril Nicholson

English poet, writer (1866-1931)

People born within ~10 km, from Wikidata (CC0). Click any name for their Wikipedia article.

Nearby places in England

• Berden
  9.7 mi away
• Bishop's Stortford
  15 mi away
• Great Dunmow
  16.6 mi away
• Witcham Toll
  21.2 mi away
• Halstead
  21.8 mi away
• Hoddesdon
  23.8 mi away · pop. 20,000
• Coggeshall
  26 mi away
• Ramsey
  27.9 mi away
• Houghton Conquest
  27.9 mi away
• Ampthill
  28.8 mi away
• Waltham Cross
  29 mi away
• Flitwick
  29.1 mi away

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Geography & sun

Elevation, sunrise/sunset and daylight from Open-Meteo. Solar climatology from NASA POWER.

Public attention

Pageview totals from the Wikimedia Pageviews API.

Books about Hinxton

C. elegans Protein Database WormPep

Sanger Centre (Hinxton, Cambridge, England) · 1993

A quest for the code of life

Liz Fletcher · 1997

Search results from Open Library.

Recently spotted species

European Robin

Erithacus rubecula

Seen 2026-09-26

greater plantain

Plantago major

Seen 2026-09-26

Mossy Rose Gall Wasp

Diplolepis rosae

Seen 2026-09-26

white campion

Silene latifolia

Seen 2026-09-26

Oak Marble Gall Wasp

Andricus kollari

Seen 2026-09-26

black nightshade

Solanum nigrum

Seen 2026-09-26

horseweed

Erigeron canadensis

Seen 2026-09-26

Lawn daisy

Bellis perennis

Seen 2026-09-26

Great Willowherb

Epilobium hirsutum

Seen 2026-09-26

Research-grade observations from iNaturalist (within ~15 mi).

Official Identifiers