Coton is a small village and civil parish about three miles (about 5 km) west of Cambridge in Cambridgeshire, England and about the same distance east of the Prime Meridian.

[3] Coton is approximately bounded to the north by the A1303 Madingley Road, which forms part of the Cambridge to St Neots road; to the west by open fields which separate the village from that of Hardwick; to the south by open fields separating it from Barton and to the east by the M11 motorway, which divides it from the city of Cambridge and, to the south-east, the village of Grantchester.

Coton is not mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086, as the land forming the village belonged at that time to Grantchester.

[9] Notable former inhabitants of Coton include Andrew Downes, a scholar and Cambridge University Regius Professor of Greek in the late 16th century; and Sir John Coke, Secretary of State under Charles I from 1625 to 1639.

In addition to its church, Coton has a primary school with 140 pupils, a restaurant-pub (The Plough[11]), a garden centre[12] containing a post office, farm shop and cafe, football, cricket and bowls clubs, and a British Women's Institute group (closed in 2019) as well as other local clubs.

The well-known Cambridge American Cemetery and Memorial is situated on the Coton stretch of Madingley Road.