Places to explore near Shelford (Cambs) StationGreat Shelford

A simple two-room village local of scrubbed tables and settles serving Adnams by gravity, soup and sandwiches only.

3.9 km SW

Thatched village on the Cam where meadow paths lead in from Cambridge to the Orchard tea garden Rupert Brooke made famous.

4.7 km NW · Cambridgeshire

Founded in 1846 by Darwin's teacher, forty acres of beds and glasshouses.

5.1 km N

Europe's largest air museum, on a surviving Battle of Britain airfield, with hangars of historic aircraft and regular flying displays.

6.1 km S

Soaring fan-vaulted Gothic seen over the Backs.

6.4 km N

A Cambridge college of 1511 spanning the Cam by the covered Gothic Bridge of Sighs.

6.9 km N

A second great Anglo-Saxon defensive bank crossing the chalk near Fulbourn, a chalk-grassland ridge walk rich in wildflowers.

7.3 km E

A small, friendly wildlife park between Cambridge and Royston, home to red pandas, big cats and a bug house.

8 km SW

Britain's only permanent American Second World War cemetery, its curving Wall of the Missing and 3,800 graves on a hillside at Madingley.

9.5 km NW

A country park in Cambridgeshire.

2.7 km E

The mellow riverside church at the heart of Rupert Brooke's Grantchester, its clock immortalised in his wartime poem.

4.5 km NW

Cambridge to King's Lynn beside the Cam and the Great Ouse, dead level across the Fens under a blue eel waymark.

5 km N · Cambridgeshire & Norfolk

Small, intact chantry chapel of the 1300s beside Whittlesford Parkway station, which may first have belonged to a medieval hospital.

5.3 km S

The Backs, the boathouses and the fen reaches below — Cambridge's river, navigable down to its meeting with the Great Ouse.

5.7 km N · Cambridgeshire

A college garden on a Dominican friary site, watered by Hobson's Conduit since the 1630s.

6.2 km N

Pretty thatched-and-timbered inn at Duxford, an old drovers' pub near the war museum with a flower-decked frontage.

6.2 km S

Cambridge's most storied pub, where Crick and Watson announced the structure of DNA and wartime airmen scorched their names on the ceiling.

6.3 km N