Traditional county: Cambridgeshire · District / Borough: South Cambridgeshire · Region: Eastern
Explore Great Shelford, Cambridgeshire with this interactive street and satellite map. You can “grab” the Great Shelford map and move it around to re-centre it. You can change between standard map view and satellite map view by clicking the small square in the bottom left-hand corner of the map. You can use the zoom buttons on the lower right side of the map to zoom in or out to street-level detail. You will find live weather, local and world news below.
This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Great Shelford, Cambridgeshire, England. Use the Map and Satellite buttons above to switch between street map and aerial imagery views. Use the + and − buttons to zoom in or out, or scroll your mouse wheel while holding the Control key to zoom. On a touchscreen, use a two-finger pinch gesture to zoom in and out.
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| Place | Great Shelford |
| Traditional County | Cambridgeshire |
| District / Borough | South Cambridgeshire |
| Region | Eastern |
| Country | England, United Kingdom |
| Latitude | 52.150350 |
| Longitude | 0.135756 |
| Place Type | Village |
Great Shelford remains a place where the low horizons of the Cambridgeshire landscape pull the eye across fields that have held human stories since the Neolithic era. It lies 3.8 miles south of Cambridge (from Cambridge: bearing 170°T, OS grid TL 462 523), and is situated west-north-west of Stapleford village. The River Cam meanders through the low-lying meadows, carrying the cool, damp breath of the fens toward the chalky rise of Stone Hill. Beneath the soil, the silent, earth-bound traces of the Causewayed Enclosure at Great Shelford mark a time when early inhabitants first claimed this verdant ground. Great Shelford retains the quiet gravity of a parish that has watched the seasons turn over centuries, its flint-walled buildings absorbing the pale, slanted light of an Eastern winter. The proximity of Clarke’s Hill provides a gentle elevation from which the entire basin appears as a patchwork of ancient agrarian industry. Residents move with the steady pulse of the railway line that connects them to the academic towers of the nearby university, yet the local character remains defined by the deep, alluvial richness of the valley floor. Great Shelford endures as a testament to the persistence of the land itself, where the modern commuter finds a home amidst the ghosts of an Iron Age past.
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Explore Great Shelford, Cambridgeshire, with an embedded street and satellite map - switch between views using the small square in the bottom left-hand corner of the map. Coordinates: 52.150350, 0.135756. Live weather conditions and 7-day forecasts are provided through Open-Meteo, while real-time local and world news feeds help keep the page current. Wikipedia and editorial summaries provide additional local information and context.
Location data is sourced from OS Open Names © Crown copyright and database rights 2024, Ordnance Survey, Open Government Licence v3.0, and verified by coordinates.
| Page built | August 2026 |
| Location data | OS Open Names © Crown copyright and database rights 2024. Ordnance Survey. Open Government Licence v3.0. |
| County data | Traditional county boundaries. Modern unitary authority: OS Open Names / ONS Geography. |
| Coordinates | WGS84 decimal degrees derived from OS National Grid (OSGB36) |
| Wikipedia validation | Article content matched by Wikipedia category membership (e.g. “Villages in Derbyshire”) and name verification against OS Open Names data. |