Trumpington

Trumpington is a village that Cambridge swallowed. It was its own parish from the Anglo-Saxon period until the twentieth century, when land north of Long Road passed to the city in 1912 and most of the rest, including the village, in 1934. The Domesday Book of 1086 lists 33 peasants here, while 1801 brought a count of 494 people. Latest census figures (2021) give 12,393.

What's here

Saints Mary and Michael, the Church of England parish church, has Grade I listing. Its oldest parts are late twelfth or early thirteenth century, and inside is the 1289 brass commemorating the knight Sir Roger de Trumpington, said to be the second-oldest in England. Eric Gill carved the village war memorial, dedicated in 1921. Anstey Hall, a Grade I listed country house of about 1700, stands near Maris Lane, a name that recalls the Plant Breeding Institute where the Maris Piper potato and Maris Otter barley were developed.

Archaeology adds depth: in 2012 excavations at Trumpington Meadows uncovered the seventh-century grave of a young woman buried on a bed with a gold and garnet cross. Chaucer's Reeve's Tale is set in the village.

Getting around

The village is on the southern edge of the city, and Grantchester is a short distance away; Iron Age and Roman settlement is recorded near the river ford on the road to it. New neighbourhoods have been built to its south and east (Glebe Farm, Clay Farm and Trumpington Meadows), so the area is far larger than the old village core. Cambridge South railway station, which opened on 28 June 2026, lies beside the Cambridge Biomedical Campus and is reached from Trumpington through Hobson's Park. For the other side of the city's southern fringe, see Cherry Hinton.