Biddlesden
Biddlesden is a village and civil parish in north-west Buckinghamshire, England on the boundary with Northamptonshire.
Biddlesden is a village and civil parish in north-west Buckinghamshire, England on the boundary with Northamptonshire. It is about 5 miles (8 km) east-north-east of Brackley, Northamptonshire and 5 miles (8 km) north-west of Buckingham. The River Great Ouse forms part of the western boundary of the parish, separating the village from Northamptonshire. The ancient royal forest of Whittlewood extended to the northern edge of the village. It is within the unitary local authority of Buckinghamshire.
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Worth seeing in and around Biddlesden
One place 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.
- 01Biddlesden Abbey
Biddlesden was a Cistercian abbey founded in 1147 by Ernald de Bosco, steward to the Earl of Leicester. The first monks came from the earl's own foundation at Garendon.
300 m · abbey · Wikipedia
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Getting to Biddlesden
- Airports
- London Luton (LTN), 53 km · Birmingham (BHX), 64 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 78 km
- Luton, Luton → Biddlesden49 km · quickest by road, 1h 19m · £6–8
- London → Biddlesden89 km · quickest by road, 2h 31m · £11–14
- Birmingham, West Midlands → Biddlesden73 km · quickest by road, 1h 53m · £10–13
- 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 Biddlesden
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 Biddlesden. 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 Biddlesden
Biddlesden is 49 km from Coventry, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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- Whitfieldvillage and civil parish in Northamptonshire, United Kingdom2.9 km
- Crowfieldhamlet in Northamptonshire, United Kingdom2.4 km
- Dadfordhamlet in Buckinghamshire, England, UK3.7 km