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.

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.
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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.
- 01Sezincote 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 - 02Church 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 - 03Batsford 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 - 04Church 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
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Getting to Blockley
- Airports
- Birmingham (BHX), 49 km · East Midlands (EMA), 96 km · Bristol (BRS), 96 km
- Birmingham, West Midlands → Blockley53 km · quickest by road, 1h 42m · £8–10
- London → Blockley126 km · quickest by road, 3h 13m · £13–18
- Nottingham, Leicestershire → Blockley113 km · quickest by road, 2h 33m · £12–16
- 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 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.
- 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.
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Next door to Blockley
Blockley is 47 km from Coventry, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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