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Ailsworth

Ailsworth or Ailesworth is a village and civil parish in the City of Peterborough unitary authority, about 4.5 miles (7.2 km) west of the city centre.

Ailsworth
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The place

Ailsworth or Ailesworth is a village and civil parish in the City of Peterborough unitary authority, about 4.5 miles (7.2 km) west of the city centre. The parish is part of the former Soke of Peterborough, which was considered geographically part of Northamptonshire until in 1974, following the Local Government Act 1972, it became part of Cambridgeshire.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Ailsworth

5 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.

  1. 01
    Milton Hall

    Milton Hall near Peterborough, is the largest private house in Cambridgeshire, England. As part of the Soke of Peterborough, it was formerly in Northamptonshire.

    2.9 km · country house in Castor, Cambridgeshire, England, the historical home of the Fitzwilliam family · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Nene Valley Railway

    The Nene Valley Railway is a preserved railway in Cambridgeshire, England, running between Peterborough Nene Valley and Yarwell Junction. The line is 7+1⁄2 miles in length.

    1.6 km · heritage railway in the United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Sutton Heath and Bog

    Sutton Heath and Bog is an 18.3-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest east of Wansford in Cambridgeshire. This site has two types of grassland, both of which are rare in Cambridgeshire.

    3 km · biological Site of Special Scientific Interest east of Wansford in Cambridgeshire, England · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Pearl Assurance War Memorial

    The Pearl Assurance War Memorial, also known as the Pearl Centre War Memorial, is a First World War memorial, designed by George Frampton for the Pearl Assurance Company. Erected in London in 1921, it was moved to Peterborough in 1991.

    3.3 km · war memorial in Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Stibbington Hall

    Stibbington Hall is a Jacobean country house in Sibson-cum-Stibbington, Huntingdonshire, England. The house and its gateway are Grade I-listed with English Heritage, and additional structures on the 19-acre property are also listed.

    2.8 km · Grade I listed building in Huntingdonshire, United Kingdom · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Ailsworth

Airports
East Midlands (EMA), 72 km · London Luton (LTN), 78 km · London Stansted (STN), 87 km
Stations
Peterborough/Sibson Airport, 3.2 km · Castor railway station, 1.2 km · Ferry Meadows railway station, 3.9 km · Wansford railway station, 2.6 km
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Ailsworth
    68 km · quickest by road, 1h 40m · £8–10
  • Luton, Luton → Ailsworth
    78 km · quickest by road, 2h 5m · £9–12
  • London, Essex → Ailsworth
    120 km · quickest by road, 3h 4m · £13–17
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Ailsworth

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 Ailsworth. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    220 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    335 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    366 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    457 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    491 km

If you know how people move in Ailsworth – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Ailsworth

Ailsworth is 53 km from Leicester, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

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  • Water Newtonvillage in Cambridgeshire, England, UK2.1 km
  • Uptonvillage and civil parish in Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, England2 km
  • Suttonvillage and civil parish in the City of Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, UK2.2 km
  • Sibson-cum-Stibbingtoncivil parish in Cambridgeshire, England, UK2.8 km