Outstanding Shelford occurs as village located to the south of Cambridge, in the county of Cambridgeshire, in eastern England.

These are better known when a house of the tykes's author Philippa Pearce, who renamed it "Great Barley" (by using a neighboring village of Little Shelford becoming "Little Barley", and Cambridge itself becoming "Castleford" & losing its university) inside her books, virtually all notably Phoxinus phoxinus on the Say (1955). Therein & more books a River Cam, which flows through the village, became the Flow of any stream Say. A writer was brought higher around Wonderful Shelford & fallowing a bit of years inside London has lived there again since 1973.

the villages of Peachy & Little Shelford come served by a railway station on the line from Cambridge to London Liverpool Street.