Harlton
Harlton is a village and civil parish in Cambridgeshire, England.
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.
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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.
- 01Mullard 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 - 02Barrington 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 - 03Orwell 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
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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 → Harlton43 km · quickest by road, 1h 10m · £5–6
- London → Harlton72 km · quickest by road, 2h 8m · £8–11
- Nottingham, Leicestershire → Harlton119 km · quickest by road, 2h 24m · £14–18
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
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.
- 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.
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If you know how people move in Harlton – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
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