The core historic buildings of Denny Abbey are open to the public and managed by the Farmland Museum.

[7] Waterbeach Abbey and a stretch of the Car Dyke, both on the southern side of the village, are also scheduled monuments.

[15] An industrial park now resides in the southwest corner of the airfield at the junction of the A10 and Denny End Road.

To the south-east is a Woodland Trust nature area, Cow Hollow Wood, laid out in 2000 to mark the Millennium.

The site, covering 293 hectares, was designated in the South Cambridgeshire Local Plan, adopted in 2018, as a strategic location for new housing.

In 2017, an outline planning application was submitted by the Ministry of Defence and developer Urban&Civic for 6,500 homes on the site.

The sign was designed by the artist Nan Youngman, who also lived in Waterbeach, and it was made by the blacksmith Richard Gowing's workshop in Soham, East Cambridgeshire.

[30] Waterbeach railway station, on the Fen Line between Cambridge and King's Lynn, had its platforms extended in 2020.

[31] A proposal to move the station closer to the development at the Barracks was approved by the local planning committee in 2018.