Blakesley
Blakesley is a village in the West Northamptonshire unitary authority area of Northamptonshire, England.
Blakesley is a village in the West Northamptonshire unitary authority area of Northamptonshire, England. It is about 5 miles (8 km) west of Towcester. It is about 400 feet (120 m) above sea level according to Ordnance Survey. North-west of Blakesley, and now contiguous with it, is the hamlet of Quinbury End.
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Worth seeing in and around Blakesley
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.
- 01Weedon 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.
4 km · castle in Northamptonshire, England · Wikipedia - 02Greens Norton Pocket Park
Greens Norton Pocket Park is a 2-hectare Local Nature Reserve in Greens Norton in Northamptonshire. It is owned and managed by Green Norton Parish Council.
3.9 km · park in United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 03Church of St Botolph
The Church of St Botolph, Slapton, also referred to as Slapton, St Botolph, is the ancient parish church of the village of Slapton near Towcester in West Northamptonshire, United Kingdom. Constructed sometime around the late 12th and early 13th centuries the church is notable for its almost complete surviving set of late medieval wall paintings, widely considered the finest in Northamptonshire.
3.6 km · church in Slapton, Northamptonshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 04Church of All Saints
All Saints Church is a Grade II listed church in Adstone, Northamptonshire, England.
3.3 km · church building in Adstone, Northamptonshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Blakesley
- Airports
- Birmingham (BHX), 57 km · London Luton (LTN), 58 km · East Midlands (EMA), 78 km
- Birmingham, West Midlands → Blakesley67 km · quickest by road, 1h 49m · £8–11
- Luton, Luton → Blakesley55 km · quickest by road, 1h 21m · £6–8
- London → Blakesley97 km · quickest by road, 2h 33m · £10–14
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No local-transport research exists yet for Blakesley
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 Blakesley. 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 Blakesley – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Blakesley
Blakesley is 41 km from Coventry, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Adstonevillage and civil parish in Northamptonshire, United Kingdom3.3 km
- Maidfordvillage and civil parish in Northamptonshire, United Kingdom2.8 km
- Woodendvillage and civil parish in Northamptonshire, United Kingdom1.5 km
- Slaptonvillage and civil parish in Northamptonshire, England, UK3.7 km
- Braddenvillage and civil parish in Northamptonshire, England, UK2.7 km
- Plumptonvillage in Northamptonshire, England3.6 km