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Bar Hill

Bar Hill is a purpose-built village with a population of 4,000 about 4 miles (7 km) northwest of Cambridge, England on the A14 road, just east of the Prime Meridian.

Bar Hill
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The place

Bar Hill is a purpose-built village with a population of 4,000 about 4 miles (7 km) northwest of Cambridge, England on the A14 road, just east of the Prime Meridian.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Bar Hill

3 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Institute of Continuing Education

    The University of Cambridge Professional and Continuing Education, formerly the Institute of Continuing Education is a department of the University of Cambridge that provides continuing education programmes at undergraduate and postgraduate levels, ranging from undergraduate certificates to master's degrees. PACE is the world's oldest university department specialising in professional and continuing education, established in 1873.

    3.4 km · Institute within the University of Cambridge · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Church of St Andrew

    St Andrew's Church is a parish church in Oakington, England. Parts of the thick walls of the nave above the arcading, and the base of the tower in the church are the earliest surviving parts of it, likely from the 12th century.

    3.5 km · church in Oakington, Cambridgeshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    St Michael's Church, Longstanton

    St Michael's Church is a redundant Anglican church in the village of Longstanton, Cambridgeshire, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building, and is under the care of the Churches Conservation Trust.

    3 km · church in South Cambridgeshire, England, UK · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Bar Hill

Airports
London Stansted (STN), 44 km · London Luton (LTN), 50 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 93 km
  • London, Essex → Bar Hill
    83 km · quickest by road, 2h 10m · £9–12
  • Luton, Luton → Bar Hill
    51 km · quickest by road, 1h 25m · £6–8
  • London → Bar Hill
    83 km · quickest by road, 2h 10m · £9–12
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Bar Hill

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Bar Hill. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Go nextMap of places with Wikivoyage articles nearby Grantchester: Take a day trip to enjoy the countryside and have scones and tea at The Orchard.

From Wikivoyage: Cambridge, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    197 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    345 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    352 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    500 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    535 km

If you know how people move in Bar Hill – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

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