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Harston

Harston is a village and civil parish in South Cambridgeshire, England, located around 5 miles (8 km) south of Cambridge.

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The place

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.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

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.

  1. 01
    Rowley'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
  2. 02
    Church 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
  3. 03
    Whittlesford - 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 → Harston
    44 km · quickest by road, 1h 5m · £4.5–6
  • London → Harston
    71 km · quickest by road, 2h 1m · £8–11
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Harston
    123 km · quickest by road, 2h 22m · £14–18
  • From anywhere
    The planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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Not yet researched

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.

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

    188 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    345 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    353 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    513 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    548 km

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

Around it

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