Impington
Impington is a village and civil parish about 3 miles north of Cambridge city centre, in the South Cambridgeshire district, in the county of Cambridgeshire, England.
Impington is a village and civil parish about 3 miles north of Cambridge city centre, in the South Cambridgeshire district, in the county of Cambridgeshire, England. It forms part of the Cambridge built-up area. In 2011 the parish had a population of 4,060. The parish borders Girton, Histon, Landbeach, Milton and Orchard Park. Impington shares a parish council with Histon called "Histon & Impington Parish Council".
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Worth seeing in and around Impington
10 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.
- 01Girton College
Girton College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. The college was established in 1869 by Emily Davies and Barbara Bodichon as the first women's college at Cambridge.
2.7 km · college of the University of Cambridge · Wikipedia - 02Churchill College
Churchill College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge in Cambridge, England. It has a primary focus on science, engineering and technology, but retains a strong interest in the arts and humanities.
3.9 km · college of the University of Cambridge · Wikipedia - 03Fitzwilliam College
Fitzwilliam College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge, England. The college has origins from 1869, with the foundation of the Non-Collegiate Students Board, a venture intended to offer academically excellent students of all backgrounds a chance to study at the university.
3.7 km · college of the University of Cambridge · Wikipedia - 04Murray Edwards College
Murray Edwards College is a women-focused constituent college of the University of Cambridge. It was founded in 1954 as New Hall and renamed in 2008.
3.7 km · college of the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 05Cambridge Observatory
Cambridge Observatory is an astronomical observatory at the University of Cambridge in the East of England. It was established in 1823 and is now part of the site of the Institute of Astronomy.
4 km · astronomical observatory at the University of Cambridge in the East of England · Wikipedia - 06St Edmund's College
St Edmund's College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge in England. Founded in 1896, it is the second-oldest of the three Cambridge colleges oriented to mature students, which accept only students reading for postgraduate degrees or for undergraduate degrees if aged 21 years or older.
3.9 km · college of the University of Cambridge · Wikipedia - 07Cambridge Castle
Cambridge Castle, locally also known as Castle Mound, is in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England. Built after the Norman Conquest of England in 1066 to control the strategically important route to the north of England, it played a role in the conflicts of the Anarchy and the First and Second Barons' Wars.
4 km · Castle in Cambridge, England · Wikipedia - 08Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge
The Institute of Astronomy is the largest of the three astronomy departments in the University of Cambridge, and one of the largest astronomy sites in the United Kingdom. Around 180 academics, postdocs, visitors and assistant staff work at the department.
3.9 km · astronomy department of the University of Cambridge · Wikipedia - 09Bridge Road
Bridge Road, also known as the Glassworld Stadium for sponsorship purposes, is a football stadium in Impington, a small village connected to Histon in Cambridgeshire. The ground is owned by a trust called Histon Football Club Holdings, who guarantee the use of the facility for sports purposes.
700 m · football stadium in Cambridgeshire, England · Wikipedia - 10Ascension Parish Burial Ground
The Ascension Parish Burial Ground, formerly known as the burial ground for the parish of St Giles and St Peter's, is a cemetery off Huntingdon Road in Cambridge, England. Many notable University of Cambridge academics are buried there, including three Nobel Prize winners.
3.4 km · cemetery in Cambridge, England · Wikipedia
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Getting to Impington
- Airports
- London Stansted (STN), 41 km · London Luton (LTN), 53 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 95 km
- London, Essex → Impington84 km · quickest by road, 2h 11m · £9–12
- Luton, Luton → Impington55 km · quickest by road, 1h 27m · £6–8
- London → Impington84 km · quickest by road, 2h 11m · £9–12
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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 Impington
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 Impington. 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 Impington
- Girtonvillage in Cambridgeshire, England2.4 km
- Miltonvillage in Cambridgeshire, England3.6 km
- Orchard Parksuburb and civil parish in Cambridgeshire, England, UK1.8 km
- Histonvillage in South Cambridgeshire, Cambridgeshire, England500 m
- Oakingtonvillage in Cambridgeshire, England, UK3.1 km
- Chestertonvillage and suburb of Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK3.9 km