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Aston Cantlow

Aston Cantlow is a village in Warwickshire, England, on the River Alne 5 miles (8.0 km) north-west of Stratford-upon-Avon and 2 miles (3.2 km) north-west of Wilmcote, close to Little Alne, Shelfield, and Newnham.

Aston Cantlow
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The place

Aston Cantlow is a village in Warwickshire, England, on the River Alne 5 miles (8.0 km) north-west of Stratford-upon-Avon and 2 miles (3.2 km) north-west of Wilmcote, close to Little Alne, Shelfield, and Newnham. It was the home of Mary Arden, William Shakespeare's mother. At the 2001 census, it had a population of 1,674, being measured again as 437 at the 2011 Census.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Aston Cantlow

4 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
    Mary Arden's Farm

    Mary Arden's Farm, also known as Mary Arden's House or Glebe Farm, is the farmhouse of Mary Shakespeare, the mother of Elizabethan playwright William Shakespeare. Because of confusion about the actual house inhabited by Mary in the mid-sixteenth century, a nearby farm was conserved in the 20th century as "Mary Arden's Farm", but has been subsequently renamed Palmer's Farm.

    2.8 km · farmhouse and museum in Wilmcote, Warwickshire, United Kingdom, associated with William Shakespeare · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    All Saints Church, Billesley

    All Saints Church is a redundant Anglican church in the village of Billesley, Warwickshire, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building, and is under the care of the Churches Conservation Trust.

    2.9 km · church in Stratford-on-Avon, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Wootton Wawen Aqueduct

    Wootton Wawen Aqueduct is one of three aqueducts on a 6 km length of the Stratford-upon-Avon Canal in Warwickshire. All are unusual in that the towpaths are at the level of the canal bottom.

    3.9 km · aqueduct in Wootton Wawen, Warwickshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Edstone Aqueduct

    Edstone Aqueduct is one of three aqueducts on a 4-mile length of the Stratford-upon-Avon Canal in Warwickshire. At 475 feet, Edstone is the longest cast iron aqueduct in England.

    2.6 km · aqueduct in Wootton Wawen, Warwickshire, England, UK · Wikipedia

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Getting to Aston Cantlow

Airports
Birmingham (BHX), 25 km · East Midlands (EMA), 74 km · London Luton (LTN), 106 km
Stations
Wilmcote railway station, 3.1 km · Bearley railway station, 3.4 km · Wootton Wawen railway station, 3.6 km
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Aston Cantlow
    91 km · quickest by road, 2h · £9–12
  • London → Aston Cantlow
    141 km · quickest by road, 2h 49m · £15–20
  • Luton, Luton → Aston Cantlow
    103 km · quickest by road, 2h 23m · £12–16
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No local-transport research exists yet for Aston Cantlow

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 Aston Cantlow. 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

    175 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    230 km
  3. 03
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    431 km
  4. 04
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    467 km
  5. 05
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    470 km

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Around it

Next door to Aston Cantlow

Aston Cantlow is 27 km from Coventry, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

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  • Kinwartonvillage in Warwickshire, England, UK1.9 km
  • Wilmcotevillage in Warwickshire, England, UK2.8 km
  • Billesleyvillage and civil parish in Warwickshire, United Kingdom3 km