Astwell
Astwell is a hamlet in Northamptonshire, England.
Astwell is a hamlet in Northamptonshire, England. With Falcutt, it is part of the civil parish of Helmdon, but formerly Astwell was split between the parishes of Syresham and Wappenham. The hamlet is 6 miles (10 km) northeast of Brackley and 17+1⁄2 miles (28 km) by road southwest of the county town of Northampton. Today the hamlet contains little more than the Astwell Castle and a mill.
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Worth seeing in and around Astwell
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.
- 01Astwell Castle
Astwell Castle is a manor house in Northamptonshire, England about 1.5 miles south-west of Wappenham. It is a Grade II listed building and part of the parish of Helmdon, a village 1 mile west.
0 m · castle in Helmdon, West Northamptonshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 02Weedon Lois Castle Mound
Weedon Lois Castle was a castle in the village of Weedon Lois, Northamptonshire, England. The castle was the caput baroniae of the barony of Weedon or Weedon Pinkeney.
3 km · castle in Northamptonshire, England · 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.
3.5 km · Site in Northamptonshire, England · Wikipedia - 04Weston Hall
Weston Hall is a 17th-century manor house in Weston, Northamptonshire. The house was owned by the Sitwell family's ancestors from 1714 to 2021.
3.3 km · house in Weston, Northamptonshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Astwell
- Airports
- London Luton (LTN), 56 km · Birmingham (BHX), 59 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 82 km
- Luton, Luton → Astwell52 km · quickest by road, 1h 30m · £6–8
- Birmingham, West Midlands → Astwell70 km · quickest by road, 1h 58m · £9–12
- London → Astwell93 km · quickest by road, 2h 42m · £11–15
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No local-transport research exists yet for Astwell
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 Astwell. 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 Astwell
Astwell is 44 km from Coventry, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Syreshamvillage and civil parish in Northamptonshire, United Kingdom3.2 km
- Wappenhamvillage and civil parish in Northamptonshire, United Kingdom2.2 km
- Helmdonvillage and civil parish in Northamptonshire, United Kingdom2.3 km
- Weedon Loisvillage in Northamptonshire, United Kingdom3 km
- Westonvillage in South Northamptonshire, UK3.3 km
- Crowfieldhamlet in Northamptonshire, United Kingdom2.5 km