Cambridge City Council - Infrastructure
Connections By Road
Cambridge has direct infrastructure links to the A14 and M11 providing easy access to London and the Eastern port of Felixstowe. A short drive along the A14 also leads you to the A1, one of the major road networks linking the north and south of the country.
Distance to Central London: Up to 75 miles (Up to 1.5 hour)Distance to Birmingham: Up to 100 miles (Up to 2 hours)
Distance to Bristol: Up to 200 miles (Up to 3 hours)
Distance to Leeds: Up to 150 miles (Up to 3 hours)
Distance to Leicester: Up to 75 miles (Up to 2 hours)
Distance to Liverpool: Up to 200 miles (Up to 4 hours)
Distance to Manchester: Up to 200 miles (Up to 4 hours)
Distance to Newcastle: Up to 300 miles (Up to 4 hours)
Distance to Sheffield: Up to 150 miles (Up to 2.5 hours)
Distance to Oxford: Up to 150 miles (Up to 2.5 hours)
Distance to Cambridge: Up to 25 miles (Up to 0.5 hour)
Connections By Rail
Access to London by rail is quick and easy, taking approximately 50 minutes from Cambridge. Journey times to other major cities of interest are as follows:
- 15 minutes to Ely
- 20 minutes to Newmarket
- 1 hour to Norwich
- 1 hour to Peterborough
- 2 and a half hours to Birmingham
- 3 hours to Leeds
- 3 and a half hours to Newcastle
Connections By Air
Marshall Airport Cambridge UK is a privately owned airport based in Cambridge.
"The airport provides the flexibility of a local airport and benefits from direct access to London, the East of England and beyond, the airport holds a public license and can accept aircraft up to Boeing B757 or Airbus A320, which makes it suitable for European short-haul airline operations and intercontinental business jets"
Cambridge is also within an hours drive of the international airports of Stansted and Luton and less than two hours from Gatwick, East Midlands and Birmingham Airports.
Closest Airport: StanstedDistance to Luton: Up to 50 miles (Up to 1.5 hour)
Distance to London Stansted: Up to 50 miles (Up to 1 hour)
Connections By Freight Ports
The nearest major ports to Cambridge are Felixstowe (which is directly linked to Cambridge via the A14 road network), Great Yarmouth , Lowestoft, Ipswich and Harwich in Essex. Smaller ports such as Wisbech and Kings Lynn are only 40 miles away.
Distance to Felixstowe: Up to 75 miles (Up to 1.5 hour)Distance to London: Up to 75 miles (Up to 1.5 hour)
Broadband / ICT Facilities
Cambridge is at the forefront of broadband technology, pioneering the adoption of a white space network, which utilises unused airwaves in digital transmissions in order to provide internet access to areas that had previously been black spots.
Whilst this technology is still in its infancy, the majority of Cambridge has access to high quality internet services, with broad provision available for the areas many ICT and technology companies.
