Girton is a village and civil parish of about 1,600 households, and 4,500 people, in Cambridgeshire, England.

The parish lies on the Via Devana, the Roman road, and a cemetery with at least 225 burials between the 2nd century AD and the early Anglo Saxon period was found near Girton College in 1880.

In addition, traces of agriculture from the late Bronze Age and Roman period were found to the north of the village in 1975.

[3] In 1934 the parish acquired 58 acres (23 hectares) of land from neighbouring Histon and the Cotton manorial estate.

[3] Further land was gained from Histon and Impington in 1953, and the village subsumed the small hamlet of Howes into its parish.

The top part of design is based on a Roman belt discovered in a burial ground near Girton College.

The centre is derived from the family coat of arms of Anne-Maria Cotton, who endowed the first Girton village school, together with geese, kept at Washpit, that provided quills for use in the University of Cambridge.