Abthorpe
Abthorpe is a village and civil parish in the valley of the River Tove in West Northamptonshire, England, about 4 miles (6.4 km) west of Towcester, 2 miles (3.2 km) northwest of Silverstone and approximately midway between London and Birmingham.
Abthorpe is a village and civil parish in the valley of the River Tove in West Northamptonshire, England, about 4 miles (6.4 km) west of Towcester, 2 miles (3.2 km) northwest of Silverstone and approximately midway between London and Birmingham.
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Worth seeing in and around Abthorpe
3 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Church of St Botolph
The Church of St Botolph, Slapton, also referred to as Slapton, St Botolph, is the ancient parish church of the village of Slapton near Towcester in West Northamptonshire, United Kingdom. Constructed sometime around the late 12th and early 13th centuries the church is notable for its almost complete surviving set of late medieval wall paintings, widely considered the finest in Northamptonshire.
1.1 km · church in Slapton, Northamptonshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 02Greens Norton Pocket Park
Greens Norton Pocket Park is a 2-hectare Local Nature Reserve in Greens Norton in Northamptonshire. It is owned and managed by Green Norton Parish Council.
3 km · park in United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 03Bucknell Wood Meadows
Bucknell Wood Meadows is a 9.2-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest north-west of Silverstone in Northamptonshire. This site consists of agriculturally unimproved fields on seasonally waterlogged soils.
1.8 km · Site in Northamptonshire, England · Wikipedia
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Getting to Abthorpe
- Airports
- London Luton (LTN), 54 km · Birmingham (BHX), 61 km · East Midlands (EMA), 82 km
- Luton, Luton → Abthorpe51 km · quickest by road, 1h 17m · £5–7
- Birmingham, West Midlands → Abthorpe71 km · quickest by road, 1h 49m · £9–12
- London → Abthorpe93 km · quickest by road, 2h 29m · £10–14
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No local-transport research exists yet for Abthorpe
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Abthorpe. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inA new off-road cycleway connects Buckingham to Winslow via Padbury and Adstock, following the route of the A413.
From Wikivoyage: Buckingham, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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Next door to Abthorpe
Abthorpe is 45 km from Coventry, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Silverstonevillage and civil parish in Northamptonshire, England, UK3.2 km
- Wappenhamvillage and civil parish in Northamptonshire, United Kingdom2.7 km
- Greens Nortonvillage and civil parish in Northamptonshire, United Kingdom3.9 km
- Slaptonvillage and civil parish in Northamptonshire, England, UK1 km
- Braddenvillage and civil parish in Northamptonshire, England, UK1.9 km