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Little Shelford

Little Shelford is a village located to the south of Cambridge, in the county of Cambridgeshire, in eastern England.

Little Shelford
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The place

Little Shelford is a village located to the south of Cambridge, in the county of Cambridgeshire, in eastern England. The River Granta lies between it and the larger village of Great Shelford, and both are served by Shelford railway station in Great Shelford, which is on the West Anglia Main Line from Cambridge to London Liverpool Street. Little Shelford contains a Grade II Listed church, called All Saints Church, which dates back to the 12th Century. The village also has one pub, the Side Quest, on the High Street. It was opened in 2025 following the closure of the Navigator Thai restaurant. Little Shelford also contains a Fish & Chips shop called Winners, and Chinese takeaway.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Little Shelford

Airports
London Stansted (STN), 30 km · London Luton (LTN), 45 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 85 km
  • Luton, Luton → Little Shelford
    47 km · quickest by road, 1h 12m · £5–7
  • London → Little Shelford
    73 km · quickest by road, 1h 59m · £8–10
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Little Shelford
    125 km · quickest by road, 2h 23m · £14–18
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No local-transport research exists yet for Little Shelford

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 Little Shelford. 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

    189 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    347 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    351 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    514 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    549 km

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