Blaston
Blaston is a village and civil parish in the Harborough district of Leicestershire.
Blaston is a village and civil parish in the Harborough district of Leicestershire. It is a small parish with a population of 54 according to the 2001 census. As the population had remained less than 100, details from the 2011 census are included in the civil parish of Horninghold. The village is near Nevill Holt, Medbourne and Hallaton. St Giles' Church in Blaston was rebuilt in 1878. Blaston was first mentioned in the Domesday Book and the name probably means the settlement of Bleath.
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Worth seeing in and around Blaston
3 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.
- 01Church of St Michael and All Angels
St Michael's church, Hallaton is a parish church in the town of Hallaton, Leicestershire. It is a Grade I listed building.
2.1 km · historic church in Hallaton, Leicestershire, England, United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 02St Giles' Church
St Giles' Church is a church in Blaston, Leicestershire. It is a Grade II listed building.
200 m · church building in Blaston, Leicestershire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 03Eye Brook Valley Woods
Eye Brook Valley Woods is a 65.7-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest east of Hallaton in Leicestershire. It is in three separate areas, Great Merrible Wood, which is managed by the Leicestershire and Rutland Wildlife Trust, Bolt Wood and Park Wood.
2.5 km · Site of Special Scientific Interest in Leicestershire, England, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Blaston
- Airports
- East Midlands (EMA), 47 km · Birmingham (BHX), 64 km · London Luton (LTN), 81 km
- Nottingham, Leicestershire → Blaston50 km · quickest by road, 1h 35m · £6–8
- Birmingham, West Midlands → Blaston74 km · quickest by road, 1h 54m · £9–12
- Luton, Luton → Blaston79 km · quickest by road, 2h 8m · £10–13
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No local-transport research exists yet for Blaston
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 Blaston. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
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Next door to Blaston
Blaston is 24 km from Leicester, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Horningholdvillage and civil parish in Leicestershire, United Kingdom1.4 km
- Hallatonvillage in Leicestershire, England, UK1.9 km
- Medbournevillage and civil parish in Leicestershire, UK2.5 km
- Stockerstonvillage and civil parish in Leicestershire, UK3.6 km
- Slawstonvillage and civil parish in Leicestershire, United Kingdom3.1 km
- Nevill Holthamlet and civil parish in Leicestershire, England2.1 km