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Comberton

Comberton is a village and civil parish in South Cambridgeshire, England, a few miles south-west of Cambridge.

Comberton
Comberton · CharlieAP2004
The place

Comberton is a village and civil parish in South Cambridgeshire, England, a few miles south-west of Cambridge.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Comberton

4 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
    Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory

    The Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory is located near Cambridge, UK and is home to a number of the largest and most advanced aperture synthesis radio telescopes in the world, including the One-Mile Telescope, 5-km Ryle Telescope, and the Arcminute Microkelvin Imager. It was founded by the University of Cambridge and is part of the Cambridge University, Cavendish Laboratories, Astrophysics Department.

    2.3 km · Observatory in the United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Cambridge American Cemetery and Memorial

    Cambridge American Cemetery and Memorial is a World War II American military war grave cemetery, lying between the villages of Coton and Madingley, 7 km north-west of Cambridge, England. The cemetery, dedicated in 1956, contains 3,811 American war dead and covers 30.5 acres.

    3.8 km · cemetery in Cambridgeshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Caldecote Meadows

    Caldecote Meadows is a 9.1-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Caldecote in Cambridgeshire. The site is herb-rich calcareous grassland, which was formerly common in the county, but is now rare.

    4 km · UK Site of Special Scientific Interest · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Madingley Wood

    Madingley Wood is a 15.4-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest near Madingley, on the western outskirts of Cambridge. The western part of this wood is ancient pedunculate oak, with other trees including ash and field maple, with hazel and hawthorn in the shrub layer.

    3.7 km · biological Site of Special Scientific Interest · 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 Comberton

Airports
London Stansted (STN), 37 km · London Luton (LTN), 44 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 86 km
  • Luton, Luton → Comberton
    45 km · quickest by road, 1h 15m · £5–7
  • London → Comberton
    76 km · quickest by road, 2h 6m · £9–11
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Comberton
    116 km · quickest by road, 2h 43m · £13–18
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Comberton

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 Comberton. 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

    190 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    343 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    355 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    506 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    541 km

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

Around it

Next door to Comberton

  • Caldecotevillage and civil parish in South Cambridgeshire, England3.7 km
  • Bartonvillage and civil parish in the South Cambridgeshire district of Cambridgeshire, England2.3 km
  • Cotonvillage and civil parish in Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom3.7 km
  • Hardwickvillage and civil parish in South Cambridgeshire, Cambridgeshire, England3 km
  • Great Eversdenvillage in Cambridgeshire, England, UK3.5 km
  • Kingstona village located in South Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom3.8 km