16 Facts About St Neots

St Neots is a town in the Huntingdonshire District in Cambridgeshire, England.

St Neots has a railway station on the East Coast Main Line with typically half-hourly services to Peterborough, Stevenage and London.

St Neots is estimated to have a population of 36,110 and is the largest town and one of the largest settlements in Cambridgeshire, after the cities of Peterborough and Cambridge.

St Neots Museum is housed in the town's former Victorian Police Station and Magistrates Court.

St Neots experienced considerable growth in the 1960s and later, when much new housing was built to accommodate families from London, as part of the London overspill plan.

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St Neots has a semi-professional non-League football team, St Neots Town FC, who play at Rowley Park Stadium.

St Neots has a ten pin bowling centre with 16 lanes, which was built on part of the site of the outdoor swimming pool that closed in 2003.

St Neots is a civil parish, which is the lowest tier of local government.

St Neots is served by the Stagecoach 905 service which operates between Bedford Bus Station and Cambridge Parkside on a typically half-hourly basis.

St Neots is within an hour's drive from London Luton Airport and London Stansted Airport, and has a direct train service to London Gatwick Airport.

St Neots is on Route 12 of the Sustrans national cycle route that connects Colchester and Oxford via Harwich, Felixstowe, Ipswich, Bury St Edmunds, Cambridge, Huntingdon, Sandy, Bedford and Milton Keynes.

St Neots is just over 49 miles north of Charing Cross, London.

Riverside Park, an amenity adjacent to St Neots Bridge, remains set aside as a flood-meadow, subject to flood, protecting dwellings and commercial property from a swollen reach.

St Neots developed at the site of a ford where overland routes converged.

Only person to assassinate a British Prime Minister, John Bellingham, was born in St Neots - Bellingham killed Spencer Perceval at the House of Commons on 11 May 1812.

The St Neots Quads are nicknamed for their place of birth; they were the first British quadruplets to survive more than a few days and as of 2021 were the oldest quadruplets in the world.