Harston
Harston is a village and civil parish in South Cambridgeshire, England, located around 5 miles (8 km) south of Cambridge.
Harston is a village and civil parish in South Cambridgeshire, England, located around 5 miles (8 km) south of Cambridge. In 2011, it had a population of 1,740.
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Worth seeing in and around Harston
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.
- 01Rowley's Hill
Rowley's Hill is a hill in Cambridgeshire, near the villages of Harston and Newton. Although of only moderate height ), it has a relatively large prominence of 31 m due to it being surrounded on all sides by a 'moat' of much lower land.
1.2 km · hill in Cambridgeshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 02Church of All Saints, Little Shelford
The Church of All Saints is a Church of England parish church in Little Shelford, Cambridgeshire. The church is a Grade II* listed building, and dates from the 12th century.
2.9 km · church in Little Shelford, Cambridgeshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 03Whittlesford - Thriplow Hummocky Fields
Whittlesford - Thriplow Hummocky Fields is a 55.6-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest between Whittlesford and Thriplow in Cambridgeshire, England. This site has two unusual species: the nationally rare grass-poly, which is only found in south Cambridgeshire on the British mainland, and the nationally uncommon fairy shrimp Chirocephalus diaphanus.
3.3 km · UK Site of Special Scientific Interest · Wikipedia
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Getting to Harston
- Airports
- London Stansted (STN), 30 km · London Luton (LTN), 42 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 83 km
- Stations
- Foxton railway station, 2.7 km
- Luton, Luton → Harston44 km · quickest by road, 1h 5m · £4.5–6
- London → Harston71 km · quickest by road, 2h 1m · £8–11
- Nottingham, Leicestershire → Harston123 km · quickest by road, 2h 22m · £14–18
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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 Harston
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 Harston. 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.
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Next door to Harston
- South Cambridgeshirenon-metropolitan district in Cambridgeshire, England1.8 km
- Foxtonvillage and civil parish in Cambridgeshire, UK3 km
- Barringtonvillage and civil parish in the South Cambridgeshire district of Cambridgeshire, England3.6 km
- Haslingfieldvillage in Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom2.3 km
- Newtoncivil parish and small village in Cambridgeshire, England1.9 km
- Little Shelfordvillage in Cambridgeshire, England2.7 km