Photo of Ely, a village in Cambridgeshire, eastern England.

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Villages & towns in CambridgeshireCambridgeshire, England

22 villages and towns in the Albion Guide across Cambridgeshire — see the full villages and towns directory, or everything to explore in Cambridgeshire.

Photo of Ely, a village in Cambridgeshire, eastern England.

Ely

Small cathedral city on an Isle above the Fens, its Ship of the Fens towering over riverside walks, a market and Cromwell's old house.

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Photo of Grantchester, a village in Cambridgeshire, eastern England.

Grantchester

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

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Photo of Hemingford Grey, a village in Cambridgeshire, eastern England.

Hemingford Grey

Riverside village on the Great Ouse with a moated 12th-century manor, the oldest inhabited house in England, and a church that lost its spire to a storm.

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Photo of Houghton (Houghton), a village in Cambridgeshire, eastern England.

Houghton (Houghton)

Picture-book Ouse-valley village of thatched cottages gathered around a green, with a National Trust watermill on the river.

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Photo of Kimbolton, a village in Cambridgeshire, eastern England.

Kimbolton

Georgian high street curving below Kimbolton Castle, where Catherine of Aragon spent her last unhappy years.

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Photo of Swaffham Prior, a village in Cambridgeshire, eastern England.

Swaffham Prior

Fen-edge village famous for two medieval churches sharing one churchyard, with a pair of restored windmills on the hill above.

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Photo of Wisbech, a village in Cambridgeshire, eastern England.

Wisbech

Capital of the Fens, its Georgian Brinks lining the Nene past Peckover House in one of England's finest riverside townscapes.

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Photo of Burwell, a village in Cambridgeshire, eastern England.

Burwell

Long fen-edge village with a working windmill, a fine Perpendicular church and the moated remains of a medieval castle.

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Photo of Hemingford Abbots, a village in Cambridgeshire, eastern England.

Hemingford Abbots

Thatched cottages and willow-lined Ouse backwaters make this the quieter of the two Hemingford villages near Huntingdon.

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Photo of Thorney, a village in Cambridgeshire, eastern England.

Thorney

Former fen island near Peterborough built around a great abbey church, later a model estate village of the Bedford dukes.

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Barrington

Home to one of the longest village greens in England, edged by thatched cottages and a much-loved pub south of Cambridge.

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Buckden

Old Great North Road village with a brick Tudor palace of the bishops of Lincoln and two historic coaching inns on the high street.

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Godmanchester

Ancient Roman town on the Great Ouse opposite Huntingdon, its riverside meadows crossed by the Chinese Bridge to a nature reserve.

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Isleham

Fen-edge village near the Suffolk border with a Norman priory chapel and a large medieval church, between Ely and Newmarket.

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Linton

Timber-framed houses and a 13th-century church line the Granta in this handsome south Cambridgeshire village.

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Reach

Tiny fen-edge village where Devil's Dyke meets the old lode, still holding its charter fair opened by the mayor of Cambridge each spring.

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St Ives (St Ives)

Riverside market town on the Great Ouse with a rare 15th-century bridge chapel and a statue of one-time resident Oliver Cromwell.

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Photo of Ramsey, a village in Cambridgeshire, eastern England.

Ramsey

Fenland market town grown up around the ruins of a great Benedictine abbey, its surviving gatehouse now in National Trust care.

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Abbots Ripton

Estate village north of Huntingdon reckoned the thatch capital of the county, its red-brick cottages set among magnolias.

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Bourn

Quiet green, an old watermill and gently rolling ground west of Cambridge, with England's oldest surviving windmill on the hill.

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Fen Ditton

Thatched riverside village on the Cam just outside Cambridge, best known for the crowds that line the bank during the college bumps.

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Sutton

Isle of Ely village on a low ridge with wide Fenland views and a striking two-storey church tower known as the Pepperpot.

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