Longstanton
Longstanton is a village and civil parish in South Cambridgeshire, England, 6 miles (9.7 km) north-west of Cambridge city centre.
Longstanton is a village and civil parish in South Cambridgeshire, England, 6 miles (9.7 km) north-west of Cambridge city centre. Longstanton occupies 2,775 acres (1,123 ha). Longstanton was created in 1953 from the two parishes of Long Stanton All Saints and Long Stanton St Michael. While the village is called Longstanton, the alternative form Long Stanton is still in use, for example when referring to the separate pre-1953 parishes, or to the current ecclesiastical parish.
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Worth seeing in and around Longstanton
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.
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Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Getting to Longstanton
- Airports
- London Stansted (STN), 46 km · London Luton (LTN), 53 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 96 km
- London, Essex → Longstanton87 km · quickest by road, 2h 13m · £9–12
- Luton, Luton → Longstanton55 km · quickest by road, 1h 29m · £6–9
- London → Longstanton87 km · quickest by road, 2h 13m · £9–12
- 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 Longstanton
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 Longstanton. 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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