Little Shelford is fancy. There’s no other word for it. If you’re fancy it should be close to the top of your list of places to consider living. It’s managed to stay as lovely as it is because the majority of the village is within a Conservation Area, successfully protecting its spacious, uncluttered rural feel, despite its closeness to Cambridge. It’s this balance that sets it apart. There are plenty of villages as pretty as Little Shelford and plenty as close to town, but no other beats it for both these things. It’s also right by Great Shelford so you can nip over the border to Tesco or the Co-Op or to get a haircut or your car fixed or the GP or optician or basically anything. The local primary school is right between the two Shelfords too.
It’s managed to stay as lovely as it is because the majority of the village is within a Conservation Area, successfully protecting its spacious, uncluttered rural feel, despite its closeness to Cambridge. It’s this balance that sets it apart.
It is a thriving community with a modern village hall, a large recreation ground with a (fancy) new sports pavilion, a charming phone box library, The Navigator is a pub / restaurant and there is a Chinese takeaway / fish and chip shop. For the commuter there are good cycle routes into the city and to Addenbrooke's Hospital and the Biomedical Campus, Junction 11 of the M11 is about 2.5 miles / 4 km away and Great Shelford mainline station (Cambridge and London Liverpool) is handy too.
