Editing St Neots (section)

==Geography==
[[File:River Ouse Riverside Park St Neots.jpg|thumb|River Great Ouse, St Neots]]

St Neots is just over 49 miles north of Charing Cross, London. It is close to the south-western boundary of [[Huntingdonshire]] District, and the northern boundary of [[Bedfordshire]]. Both the city of [[Cambridge]] {{ndash}} about {{convert|18|mi}} east {{ndash}} and [[Bedford, Bedfordshire|Bedford]] {{ndash}} about {{convert|13|mi}} southwest) are nearby. The city of [[Milton Keynes]] is {{convert|31|mi}} to the west and [[Peterborough]] is {{convert|29|mi}} to the north. The [[A428 road|A428]] road makes the boundary with [[Little Barford]] and Northern [[Bedfordshire]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Information about St. Neots Bypass |url=https://www.streetcheck.co.uk/postcode/pe196fl |website=StreetCheck}}</ref> 

St Neots lies in the valley of the [[River Great Ouse]], partly on the [[flood plain]] and partly on slightly higher ground a little further from the water. The Great Ouse is a mature river, once wide and shallow but now controlled by [[weir]]s and [[sluice]]s and usually constrained in a well-defined channel.
[[Tributary|Tributaries]] entering the Great Ouse in the town are the [[River Kym]], Hen Brook, Duloe Brook and Colmworth Brook. The area is generally low-lying. 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 (river)|ford]] where overland routes converged. The Great North Road and the major route from Ipswich to the West Midlands (later the [[A45 road]]) intersected at St Neots and Eaton Socon.

The soil is mainly light, overlying [[gravel]] beds &ndash; gravel extraction is a local industry. Older disused [[gravel pit]]s, such as the nearby [[Paxton Pits Nature Reserve|Paxton Pits]] and [[Wyboston|Wyboston Leisure Park]], have been converted to nature reserves and amenity areas. Away from the river, the higher land is mainly a heavy [[clay]] soil with few large settlements. Much of the land is used for [[arable land|arable]] farming.

===Climate===
The climate in the United Kingdom is defined as a [[temperate]] [[oceanic climate]], a classification it shares with most of northwest Europe.<ref>{{cite journal | last1=Peel |first1=M. C. |last2=Finlayson |first2=B. L. |last3=McMahon |first3=T. A. | year=2007 | title= Updated world map of the Köppen–Geiger climate classification | journal=Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci. | volume=11 |issue=5 | pages=1633–1644 | url=http://www.hydrol-earth-syst-sci.net/11/1633/2007/hess-11-1633-2007.html | issn = 1027-5606|doi=10.5194/hess-11-1633-2007|bibcode=2007HESS...11.1633P | doi-access=free }} ''(direct: [http://www.hydrol-earth-syst-sci.net/11/1633/2007/hess-11-1633-2007.pdf Final Revised Paper])''</ref> Eastern areas of the United Kingdom, such as [[East Anglia]], are drier, cooler, less windy and also experience the greatest daily and seasonal temperature variations. Protected from the cool onshore coastal breezes, Cambridgeshire is warm in summer and cold and frosty in winter.

In Saint Neots, the summers are short, comfortable, and partly cloudy and the winters are long, very cold, windy, and mostly cloudy. Over the course of the year, the temperature typically varies from 2°C to 22°C and is rarely below -3°C or above 28°C.  Rain falls throughout the year in Saint Neots. The month with the most rain in Saint Neots is October, with an average rainfall of 49 millimetres. The month with the least rain in Saint Neots is March, with an average rainfall of 30 millimetres.<ref name = weather>https://weatherspark.com/y/45370/Average-Weather-in-Saint-Neots-United-Kingdom-Year-Round Weatherspark Website, Weather at St Neots, retrieved 24 April 2025</ref>