Orwell
Orwell is a rural village outside Cambridge in South Cambridgeshire, England. The Prime Meridian passes the eastern edge of Orwell.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 1,070 residents
- Description: village in Cambridgeshire, England, UK
- Also known as: “Orwell, Cambridgeshire”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Church of St Andrew and Orwell Clunch Pit.
Orwell Clunch Pit
Nature reserve
Photo: Brian Green, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Orwell Clunch Pit is a 1.8-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest on the northern outskirts of Orwell in Cambridgeshire. It is owned by Orwell Parish Council and managed by the Clunch Pit Management Trust.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Wimpole and Little Eversden.
Wimpole
Village
Photo: Jon Bennett, CC BY 2.0.
Wimpole is a small village and civil parish in South Cambridgeshire, England, about 8+1⁄2 miles southwest of Cambridge. Until 1999, the main settlement on the A603 was officially known and signed as New Wimpole and Orwell, Cambridge Road.
Little Eversden
Village
Photo: Keith Edkins, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Little Eversden is a village approximately 7 miles south-west of Cambridge, England. It has two main roads: Harlton Road which goes through Little Eversden and joins the A603, and High Street. Little Eversden is situated 2 miles northeast of Orwell.
Great Eversden
Village
Photo: mym, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Great Eversden is a village 6 miles south-west of Cambridge, England. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 Census was 241. The Prime Meridian runs through the parish just to the east of the village, separating it from Little Eversden. Great Eversden is situated 2 miles north of Orwell.
Orwell
- Categories: civil parish and locality
- Location: Orwell, South Cambridgeshire District, Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
52.13502° or 52° 8′ 6″ northLongitude
-0.01239° or 0° 0′ 45″ westPopulation
1,070Elevation
125 feet (38 metres)Open location code
9C4X4XPQ+22OpenStreetMap ID
node 32041091OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2640883Wikidata ID
Q2446790
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Orwell” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “ارول”
- Cebuano: “Orwell”
- Chinese: “Orwell”
- Dutch: “Orwell”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ارول”
- French: “Orwell”
- Irish: “Orwell”
- Italian: “Orwell”
- Ladin: “Orwell”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Orwell (Cambridgeshire)”
- Persian: “اورول، کمبریجشر”
- Polish: “Orwell”
- Spanish: “Orwell (Cambridgeshire)”
- Spanish: “Orwell”
- Swedish: “Orwell, Cambridgeshire”
- Swedish: “Orwell”
- Turkish: “Orwell, Cambridgeshire”
- Welsh: “Orwell, Swydd Gaergrawnt”
- Welsh: “Orwell”
- “Orwell”
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