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Blockley

Blockley is a village, civil parish and ecclesiastical parish in the Cotswold district of Gloucestershire, England, about 3 miles (5 km) northwest of Moreton-in-Marsh.

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The place

Blockley is a village, civil parish and ecclesiastical parish in the Cotswold district of Gloucestershire, England, about 3 miles (5 km) northwest of Moreton-in-Marsh. Until 1931 Blockley was an exclave of Worcestershire.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Blockley

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.

  1. 01
    Sezincote House

    Sezincote House is the centre of a country estate in the civil parish of Sezincote, in the county of Gloucestershire, England. The house was designed by Samuel Pepys Cockerell, built in 1805, and is a notable example of Neo-Mughal architecture, a 19th-century reinterpretation of 16th and 17th-century architecture from the Mughal Empire.

    3.9 km · Grade I listed country house in Gloucestershire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Church of St Lawrence

    The Anglican Church of St Lawrence at Bourton-on-the-Hill in the Cotswold District of Gloucestershire, England, was built in the 12th century. It is a grade I listed building.

    2.7 km · church in Bourton-on-the-Hill, Gloucestershire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Batsford Arboretum

    Batsford Arboretum is a 55-acre arboretum and botanical garden near Batsford in Gloucestershire, England, about 1½ miles north-west of Moreton-in-Marsh, at grid reference SP187339. It is owned and run by the Batsford Foundation, a registered charity, and is open to the public daily throughout most of the year.

    2.5 km · garden near Batsford in Gloucestershire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Church of St Peter and St Paul, Blockley

    The Church of St Peter and St Paul is a Church of England parish church in Blockley, Gloucestershire, England. The church is a Grade II* listed building.

    100 m · church in Blockley, Gloucestershire, England, UK · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Blockley

Airports
Birmingham (BHX), 49 km · East Midlands (EMA), 96 km · Bristol (BRS), 96 km
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Blockley
    53 km · quickest by road, 1h 42m · £8–10
  • London → Blockley
    126 km · quickest by road, 3h 13m · £13–18
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Blockley
    113 km · quickest by road, 2h 33m · £12–16
  • From anywhere
    The planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Blockley

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 Blockley. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inPrivate chartered coach trips are run by a lot of companies from most major cities, including London, Birmingham, and other nearby tourist hotspots such as Stratford-upon-Avon.
  • Get inYou can hitchhike from the B4632 or A44 roads.

From Wikivoyage: Broadway (England), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    151 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    221 km
  3. 03
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    454 km
  4. 04
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    476 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    490 km

If you know how people move in Blockley – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Blockley

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