Longstanton is a village and civil parish in South Cambridgeshire, England, 6 miles (9.7 km) north-west of Cambridge city centre.

"[3] By the time of the Domesday Book "Stantone" was one of the most populous villages in the area, with 67 peasant tenants being recorded.

[1] The cemetery at the church of Longstanton All Saints contains a number of graves of servicemen who died either during or after the war.

Longstanton is in the parliamentary constituency of St Neots & Mid Cambridgeshire, represented in the House of Commons since 2024 by Ian Sollom.

The village itself lies on a low gravel ridge (approximately 10 metres (33 ft) to 14 metres (46 ft) above mean sea level) but most of the parish lies on West Walton formation and Amptill Clay formation mudstone.

[5] The new town was proposed c. 2003, and will be built on land to the north and east of Longstanton (including the former RAF Oakington site).

In 2012 outline planning consent was granted for the first phase of 1,500 houses, a new primary school and some local road improvements.

[7] The development of new housing at Home Farm started circa 2005 and the population had increased to 2,657 in 1,095 households in the 2011 census.

Long Stanton station was immortalised in the Flanders and Swann song "Slow Train".

[14] A fictional Longstanton Spice Museum is mentioned in the British comedy series I'm Alan Partridge.

The busway opened in August 2011 and there is a stop with a park-and-ride car park at Longstanton close to the site of the old railway station.

Longstanton is unusual among English villages in having two mediaeval churches - a reminder of its history as two parishes.

[3] It is notable as a rare example of a church with a thatched roof (one of only two surviving in Cambridgeshire),[20] and is a Grade II* listed building.