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Harlton

Harlton is a village and civil parish in Cambridgeshire, England.

The place

Harlton is a village and civil parish in Cambridgeshire, England. The village is 5 miles (8.0 km) south-west of Cambridge and neighbours Haslingfield.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Harlton

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
    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.

    1.9 km · Observatory in the United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Barrington Pit

    Barrington Pit is a 3.8-hectare geological Site of Special Scientific Interest near Barrington in Cambridgeshire. It is a Geological Conservation Review site.

    3.2 km · UK Site of Special Scientific Interest · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Orwell Clunch Pit

    Orwell Clunch Pit is a 1.8-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest on the northern outskirts of Orwell in Cambridgeshire. It is owned by Orwell Parish Council and managed by the Clunch Pit Management Trust.

    3 km · site of Special Scientific Interest in Orwell, Cambridgeshire · 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 Harlton

Airports
London Stansted (STN), 33 km · London Luton (LTN), 41 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 83 km
  • Luton, Luton → Harlton
    43 km · quickest by road, 1h 10m · £5–6
  • London → Harlton
    72 km · quickest by road, 2h 8m · £8–11
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Harlton
    119 km · quickest by road, 2h 24m · £14–18
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Harlton

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 Harlton. 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

    187 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    342 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    356 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    509 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    544 km

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

Around it

Next door to Harlton

  • Harstonvillage and civil parish in Cambridgeshire, England, UK3.9 km
  • Barringtonvillage and civil parish in the South Cambridgeshire district of Cambridgeshire, England2.3 km
  • Bartonvillage and civil parish in the South Cambridgeshire district of Cambridgeshire, England3.9 km
  • Haslingfieldvillage in Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom1.7 km
  • Little Eversdenvillage in Cambridgeshire, England, UK2.6 km
  • Great Eversdenvillage in Cambridgeshire, England, UK2.8 km