Comberton

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title: "Comberton" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["comberton", "villages-in-cambridgeshire", "civil-parishes-in-cambridgeshire", "south-cambridgeshire-district"] description: "Village and civil parish in South Cambridgeshire, England" topic_path: "general/comberton" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comberton" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Village and civil parish in South Cambridgeshire, England ::

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Field	Value
country	England
coordinates
official_name	Comberton
static_image_name	Comberton village green.jpg
static_image_caption	Comberton village green and pond
population	2,346
population_ref	(2011 Census)
shire_district	South Cambridgeshire
region	East of England
shire_county	Cambridgeshire
constituency_westminster	South Cambridgeshire
post_town	CAMBRIDGE
postcode_district	CB23
postcode_area	CB
dial_code	01223
os_grid_reference	TL383563
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|country = England |coordinates = |official_name= Comberton |static_image_name=Comberton village green.jpg |static_image_caption=Comberton village green and pond |london_distance= | population = 2,346 | population_ref = (2011 Census) |shire_district= South Cambridgeshire |region= East of England | shire_county = Cambridgeshire |constituency_westminster= South Cambridgeshire |post_town= CAMBRIDGE |postcode_district = CB23 |postcode_area= CB |dial_code= 01223 |os_grid_reference=TL383563

Comberton is a village and civil parish in South Cambridgeshire, England, a few miles south-west of Cambridge.

Toponymy

The village's name is often derived from "Cumbre" + "-tun", where "Cumbre" generically means Briton(the Cymru), and -tun is an Old English suffix meaning enclosure or farmstead. The Domesday Book (1086) has it recorded as Cumbertone. According to William Kip’s map of the area in 1607 Comberton is spelt as it is today (2025).

History

Archaeological finds, including a Neolithic polished stone axe (found to the south of the current village) and a Bronze Age barrow (to the north), suggest there has been a settlement here for thousands of years. A Roman villa was discovered in 1842. In a hypothesis, the Roman villa has been associated with the tenth-century Battle of Brunanburh.The village was mentioned in Domesday Book of 1086 as Cumbertone, and therefore dates to at least the 11th century. Some of the present houses in the village date from the 14th century.

Geography

Comberton is about 5 mi south-west of the city of Cambridge, and just 1/2 mi east of the Greenwich Prime Meridian, lying at a height above mean sea level of around 25 ft. The civil parish covers 1954 acres, and is part of the local government district of South Cambridgeshire. Nearby villages include Barton to the east and Toft to the west. Comberton is twinned with Le Vaudreuil, a village near Rouen, France. The Prime Meridian is marked by a stone plaque on the north side of the main road (B1046) between Comberton and the neighbouring village of Toft.

Community

Comberton has a population of about 2,300, down from 2,400 in 2011. It has a pub, The Three Horseshoes, a Co-Op, a post office, a recreation ground, a doctor's surgery, a dentist's surgery, and two churches: the Church of England St Mary's, a Grade I listed Early English-style building dating from the 13th century, and a Baptist church dating from 1868. The village has a playgroup, a nursery, the Meridian Primary School, Comberton Village College, and the Comberton Sixth Form. The latter two are part of the Cam Academy Trust.

The four corners of the crossroads at the village centre house the village pond with resident ducks, Comberton Playgroup, a large farm house, Cross Farm, and the former village store, now a dental surgery.

From the 1930s onward, Cross Farm was home to the literary journalist and writer Lyn Irvine and her husband, Cambridge mathematician Max Newman. The hamlet of Green End, just north of the crossroads, was named after the landowner Sir Henry Green (d.1370), Chief Justice of the King's Bench 1361–1365. The current Manor House at Green End dates back to the late 16th century.

References

References

1. "2011 Census".
2. "Key to English Place-names".
3. (28 April 2017). "History of Comberton – Comberton Village Website".
4. "Comberton history".
5. Deakin, Michael. (2025). "Brunnanburh and Brunanburh, Two Names, One Place and a Battle in a Cambridgeshire Valley". The Battlefields Trust.
6. "Comberton". Open Domesday Book.
7. "British towns twinned with French towns". Archant Community Media Ltd.
8. (3 November 2023). "Census 2021: Cambridgeshire and Peterborough provisional ward level population summary". Cambridgeshire County Council.
9. "Comberton (Cambridgeshire, East of England, United Kingdom) - Population Statistics, Charts, Map, Location, Weather and Web Information".
10. "South Cambridgeshire District Council population forecasts".
11. "CHURCH OF ST MARY". Historic England.
12. "St. Mary's website: History".
13. "CBC website".
14. "Comberton Primary School".
15. "Comberton Village College".
16. "Comberton Sixth Form".
17. "Our Schools". Cam Academy Trust.

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