The village is approximately 8 miles (13 km) southeast from the city and county town of Cambridge.

[3] A market was first held in Linton in 1246 after a charter had been granted by William de Say, Lord of the Manor.

[14] Linton village is on the Icknield Way Path, 110-mile route from Ivinghoe Beacon in Buckinghamshire to Knettishall Heath in Suffolk.

The Icknield Way Trail, a route used by walkers, horse riders and off-road cyclists, also passes through the village.

The Wacky Races was a local annual event that occurred from 2002 to 2006 on the second Bank Holiday Weekend in May.

It began on the extended Bank Holiday Weekend, which commemorated Queen Elizabeth II's 50th coronation anniversary, and raised money for local charities.

Participants would race in comedic, homemade costumes and carts down the High Street, with one team mate stopping in each pub to have a pint, and then racing through the fields next to the village and back down the High Street, again drinking in the pubs.