Village in Cambridgeshire, England

Sawston

Sawston is a large village in Cambridgeshire in England, situated on the River Cam about seven miles (11 km) south of Cambridge with a population of 7,271.

Plan a trip to Sawston→From Luton, Luton

Every way there

Luton, Luton → Sawston
48 km · quickest by road, 1h 14m · £5–7
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London → Sawston
71 km · quickest by road, 1h 53m · £7–10
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Nottingham, Leicestershire → Sawston
129 km · quickest by road, 2h 30m · £14–19
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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 Sawston, 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 Sawston has

YScheduled flightsLondon, Essex (STN), 27 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.

52.125°, 0.173°

How locals move

Getting around Sawston 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.

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