Village in Cambridgeshire, England

Longstowe

Longstowe is a civil parish and small rural village of nearly 200 residents in South Cambridgeshire, England, 12 miles (19 km) west of Cambridge.

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Every way there

London → Longstowe
75 km · quickest by road, 2h 7m · £8–11
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Nottingham, Leicestershire → Longstowe
112 km · quickest by road, 2h 47m · £13–17
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Birmingham, West Midlands → Longstowe
128 km · quickest by road, 2h 25m · £14–19
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The field note

What is in and around Longstowe, 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 Longstowe has

YScheduled flightsLuton, Luton (LTN), 39 km
NTrains and coachesno timetable feed known for this country
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. Nearest place with more: Cambridge, 14 km.

52.183°, -0.083°

The population was measured at 205 at the 2011 census. It is situated on the western side of the A1198 road, running for about a mile along the B1046.

How locals move

Getting around Longstowe 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: Andy / Andrew Fogg from near Cambridge, UK (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.