Little Paxton

Infobox UK place
official_name= Little Paxton
country= England
region= East of England
os_grid_reference= TL195628
latitude= 52.25
longitude= -0.25
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shire_county= Cambridgeshire
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Little Paxton in Cambridgeshire, England is a village near Great Paxton north of St Neots. 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.

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 village has a public house called The Anchor.

Gravel extraction remains an important industry in and around the village. There is also a fencing company, a tool hire and a conservatory village. On the edge of the village, a derelict industrial site has been redeveloped to provide riverside housing, extending the village towards the outskirts of St. Neots.

In 2007, Little Paxton was awarded the title of 'Cambridgeshire Village of the Year' and has subsequently been entered into a nationwide competition.

Curiously, Little Paxton is much bigger than Great Paxton.

External links

* [http://www.huntsdc.gov.uk/Community+and+People/Neighbourhood-village/Towns+and+Villages/Little+Paxton.htm Little Paxton, Huntingdonshire]