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Blisworth

Blisworth is a village and civil parish in West Northamptonshire, England.

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The place

Blisworth is a village and civil parish in West Northamptonshire, England. The West Coast Main Line, from London Euston to Manchester and Scotland, runs alongside the village partly hidden and partly on an embankment. The Grand Union Canal passes through the village and the north portal of the Blisworth Tunnel is near Stoke Road.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Blisworth

7 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
    Blisworth Tunnel

    Blisworth Tunnel is a canal tunnel on the Grand Union Canal in Northamptonshire, England, between the villages of Stoke Bruerne at the southern end and Blisworth at the northern end.

    2.2 km · tunnel on the Grand Union Canal in Northamptonshire, England · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Tiffield St. John the Baptist Church

    Tiffield St. John the Baptist Church is a church in the small village of Tiffield in Northamptonshire, England.

    3.4 km · church in Tiffield, Northamptonshire, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Canal Museum, Stoke Bruerne

    The Canal Museum, formerly known as the National Waterways Museum at Stoke Bruerne and The Canal Museum at Stoke Bruerne, is a canal museum located next to the Grand Union Canal just south of the Blisworth Tunnel, near the village of Stoke Bruerne in Northamptonshire. It is about 10 miles north of Milton Keynes and 7 miles south of Northampton near junction 15 of the M1 motorway.

    3.9 km · museum in Northamptonshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Tiffield Pocket Park

    Tiffield Pocket Park is a 2.6 hectare Local Nature Reserve north of Tiffield in West Northamptonshire. It is leased by a private owner to Tiffield Parish Council and managed by The Tiffield Pocketeers.

    3.2 km · park in United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Gayton Manor House

    Gayton Manor House is a manor house in Gayton, England. It is a Grade I listed building in West Northamptonshire.

    2.6 km · Grade I listed manor house in South Northamptonshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Courteenhall House

    Courteenhall House, Courteenhall, Northamptonshire, England is an 18th-century country house built for Sir William Wake, 9th Baronet. Wake's architect was Samuel Saxon.

    3.4 km · country house in Courteenhall, Northamptonshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Blisworth Arch

    The Blisworth Arch is a railway bridge in Blisworth, Northamptonshire, in eastern England. It was designed by Robert Stephenson for the London and Birmingham Railway and completed in 1837.

    600 m · railway bridge in Blisworth, South Northamptonshire, England, UK · Wikipedia

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Getting to Blisworth

Airports
London Luton (LTN), 51 km · Birmingham (BHX), 63 km · East Midlands (EMA), 78 km
Stations
Blisworth railway station, 1.2 km
  • Luton, Luton → Blisworth
    49 km · quickest by road, 1h 6m · £5–7
  • London → Blisworth
    93 km · quickest by road, 2h 18m · £10–13
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Blisworth
    74 km · quickest by road, 1h 39m · £8–11
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Blisworth

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 Blisworth. 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

    167 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    280 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    417 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    468 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    503 km

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Around it

Next door to Blisworth

Blisworth is 47 km from Coventry, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

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