Melbourn

Featured view

Melbourn

Total population

4,490

Land area1490 km²

Coordinates52.08°, 0.02°

Demographic figures from UK Office for National Statistics. Overview below cites Wikipedia and may reference a different year.

City facts

Facts from Wikidata (CC0).

Overview

Melbourn is a large, clustered village in the far south-west of Cambridgeshire, England. Its traditional high street is bypassed by the A10, intersecting the settlement's other main axis exactly 3 miles (4.8 km) northwest of the traditional focal point of Royston, Hertfordshire, the nearest larger settlement. It has over 4,600 inhabitants and is in the South Cambridgeshire district.

Geography

Coordinates & boundaries from the US Census TIGER/Line shapefiles.

Notable people from here

H

Hayley Okines

British activist and author with progeria (1997–2015)

Alison Balsom

English trumpet player

Thomas Cartwright

English Puritan preacher and theologian

John Tiptoft, 1st Earl of Worcester

Lord High Treasurer (1427-1470)

T

Thomas Willett

Mayor of New York City

A

Adam Seymour

English cricketer

B

Brian Gadsby

English cricketer (born 1933)

D

Danny Bryant

English blues musician

Edward Stallybrass

British missionary (1794-1884)

Will Hoy

British racing driver (1953–2002)

J

James Campbell-Ferguson

English cricketer (born 1940)

J

John Conder

British minister

John Wallace Fuller

British-born general in the Union Army during the American Civil War

J

Joseph Towne

British artist

N

Nigel Gadsby

English cricketer (born 1961)

P

Peter Shippey

cricketer (born 1939)

People born within ~10 km, from Wikidata (CC0). Click any name for their Wikipedia article.

Nearby places in England

• Berden
  10.6 mi away
• Bishop's Stortford
  16 mi away
• Great Dunmow
  20.6 mi away
• Ampthill
  22 mi away
• Witcham Toll
  22.1 mi away
• Hoddesdon
  22.2 mi away · pop. 20,000
• Flitwick
  22.4 mi away
• Ramsey
  25.9 mi away
• Cheshunt
  26.3 mi away
• Waltham Cross
  27.4 mi away
• Halstead
  28 mi away
• Enfield
  30 mi away

Browse all places in England →

Geography & sun

Elevation, sunrise/sunset and daylight from Open-Meteo. Solar climatology from NASA POWER.

Public attention

Pageview totals from the Wikimedia Pageviews API.

Books about Melbourn

Mrs. Melbourne

Hebe Elsna · 1958

Twelve Melbourne printmakers & young Melbourne printmakers

R.M.I.T. Faculty of Art Gallery (Melbourne, Australia) · 1984

St.Peters and Melbourne housing action areas

Leicester (England). Renewal Strategy Team.

The stately homes of England

Llewellynn Frederick William Jewitt · 1870

Melbourne Baptists

Thomas J. Budge · 1951

The famous Australian convict ship 'Success', Melbourne

Royal College of Surgeons of England · 1891

A history and guide to the Parish Church of Melbourne, Derbyshire

Roderick J. Barman · 1960

Bishop Moorhouse of Melbourne and Manchester

Edith C. Rickards · 1920

Search results from Open Library.

Recently spotted species

Eurasian Magpie

Pica pica

Seen 2026-09-17

Great Spotted Woodpecker

Dendrocopos major

Seen 2026-09-17

Reeves's Muntjac

Muntiacus reevesi

Seen 2026-09-17

Eurasian Hummingbird Hawkmoth

Macroglossum stellatarum

Seen 2026-09-16

Common Kingfisher

Alcedo atthis

Seen 2026-09-16

Lesser Stag Beetle

Dorcus parallelipipedus

Seen 2026-09-16

Wild Mignonette

Reseda lutea

Seen 2026-09-16

Black horehound

Ballota nigra

Seen 2026-09-16

Common Gromwell

Lithospermum officinale

Seen 2026-09-16

Research-grade observations from iNaturalist (within ~15 mi).

Official Identifiers