Town in Cambridgeshire, England

Cambourne

Cambourne is a town and civil parish in Cambridgeshire, England, in the district of South Cambridgeshire.

Plan a trip to Cambourne→From London, Essex

Every way there

London, Essex → Cambourne
79 km · quickest by road, 2h 13m · £9–13
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Luton, Luton → Cambourne
45 km · quickest by road, 1h 18m · £5–7
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London → Cambourne
79 km · quickest by road, 2h 13m · £9–13
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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.

The field note

What is in and around Cambourne, ranked by how widely it is written about, how you reach it, and the nearest places where we have researched how people move.

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What Cambourne has

YScheduled flightsLondon, Essex (STN), 43 km
YTrains and coachesTransitous carries 3 timetable feeds for this country, 2 with real-time
NFerriesno crossing within 25 km
YDriving and taxiOpenStreetMap roads; cab fare from the country band
NBike and scooter shareno share feed known
NCruisesno open itinerary source anywhere

Y routable now · F found, not yet implemented · N no source known.

52.220°, -0.070°

It is a planned development and lies on the A428 road between Cambridge, 9 miles (14 km) to the east, and St Neots and Bedford to the west. It comprises the four areas of Great Cambourne, Lower Cambourne, Upper Cambourne, and West Cambourne. The area is close to Bourn Airfield.

How locals move

Getting around Cambourne the local way

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. Last edited 2026-09.

Text adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Number 10 (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.