Sawston is a large village in Cambridgeshire in England, situated on the River Cam about seven miles (11 km) south of Cambridge with a population of 7,271.

[3] The northern high-ground in Sawston would have been the only vantage point from which to view the ancient Hill figures discovered in the Wandlebury section of the Wheatsheaf Duxford.

Divided among three owners—Count Robert of Mortain, Geoffrey de Mandeville, and Eudo the steward—Sawston's social fabric comprised lords, villagers, smallholders, and even slaves.

Before the Norman Conquest of 1066, the previous overlords of Sawston where some of the notable figures in England including: Earl Harold and King Edward.

It has many fine features, such as the magnificent Great Hall complete with Elizabethan panelling and a large Tudor fireplace with fireback dated 1571.

The house also has its own panelled private chapel which has an 18th-century decorated plaster ceiling and wonderful stained glass windows.

[6] The hall is surrounded by almost 60 acres (24 ha) of grounds which includes a Site of Special Scientific Interest protected by Natural England due to the presence of Cambridge Milk Parsley, a rare English native plant.

It survived the rage of the Puritans in the civil wars, but was torn down between the summer of 1815 and autumn of 1816, along with the surrounding amphitheatre-like enclosure, the stocks and ancient sycamore tree, and sold by greedy village elders to make way for redevelopment.

Sawston has seen substantial development since the end of the Second World War and, more recently, a number of large housing estates have been constructed, most notably to the north-west and south of the village.

[9] Work on a new Community Hub - a flexible meeting place and library (in temporary buildings following the 2012 fire at the Walnut Gallery, SVC)-was completed in 2022.

The chalky nature of the local geology provides for a clean, if hard, water supply as it is drawn from artesian wells in the area.

Nationally, Sawston is in the South Cambridgeshire constituency for representation in the Westminster Parliament – a seat currently held by Pippa Heylings of the Liberal Democrats since the 2024 United Kingdom general election.

Notable organisations in the village include: Sawston is the base for the charity Opportunities Without Limits (OWL), which in 2010 merged with the Papworth Trust.

They incorporate a number of other training projects for adults with learning difficulties including a bike refurbishment and resell shop, and a café attached to Sawston Free Church[22] in the high street.

Sawston Rovers Football Club, who play their home fixtures at Mill Lane, compete in Kershaw Senior B with their reserve team in Mead Plant and Grab Division 4A.

[42] which currently competes in the Greene King Leagues[43] The village is a major stop on the Citi 7 bus route operated by Stagecoach East.

[44] Sawston has never had a railway station of its own, but Whittlesford Parkway on the West Anglia Main Line is approximately 2 miles away.

A dedicated walking and cycling path connects the station to the Unity Campus business park in the southern part of the village.

The village has been twinned with the German town of Selsingen since Klaus Bruno Pape's visit to Sawston in 1984, as a result of a link being established between the two in the PhD thesis of Walther Piroth of Frankfurt University.