Albion
Albion is an alternative name for Great Britain.
Albion is an alternative name for Great Britain. The oldest attestation of the toponym comes from the Greek language. Today the term is only used poetically.
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Worth seeing in and around Albion
2 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.
- 01St. George's Anglican Church, Fort Langley
St. George’s Anglican Church is a historic church in Fort Langley, British Columbia, Canada.
2.6 km · church in Canada, Canada · Wikipedia - 02Kanaka Creek Regional Park
Kanaka Creek Regional Park is a regional park of the Greater Vancouver Regional District, located in the city of Maple Ridge, British Columbia, flanking both sides of Kanaka Creek from its confluence with the Fraser River just east of Haney and extending approximately 11 km up the creek to just south of the community of Webster's Corners. The Maple Ridge Fairgrounds are just east of the lower regions of the park, beyond them is the community of Albion.
2.6 km · regional park in British Columbia · Wikipedia
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Getting to Albion
- Airports
- Vancouver (YVR), 46 km · Victoria (YYJ), 88 km · Seattle–Tacoma (SEA), 194 km
- Stations
- Fort Langley Airport, 2.2 km · Fort Langley Water Aerodrome, 2.9 km
- Vancouver → Albion41 km · quickest by road, 1h 22m · C$6–8
- Victoria → Albion102 km · quickest by road, 5h 36m · C$23–31
- Kelowna → Albion235 km · quickest by road, 5h 24m · C$43–60
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Albion
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 Albion. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
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If you know how people move in Albion – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Albion
Albion is 21 km from Surrey, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Fort Langleyhuman settlement in British Columbia, Canada2.7 km
- Albion, British Columbiahuman settlement in British Columbia, Canada700 m