Hinxton

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Hinxton
Village centre: memorial cross, mini-library in a red telephone box, and the parish church
Hinxton Location within Cambridgeshire
Population	320
OS grid reference	TL496450
Shire county	Cambridgeshire
Region	East
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	SAFFRON WALDEN
Postcode district	CB10
Dialling code	01799
UK Parliament	South Cambridgeshire
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.