--- title: "Buckminster – what is there, and how you get there | Mixroutes" description: "Buckminster, United Kingdom: Buckminster is a village and civil parish within the Melton district of Leicestershire, England, which includes the two…" url: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/buckminster" markdown: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/buckminster.md" image: "https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d0/R._Buckminster_Fuller_with_his_domed_city_design.jpg/1920px-R._Buckminster_Fuller_with_his_domed_city_design.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail" --- Village in Leicestershire, England · United Kingdom # Buckminster Buckminster is a village and civil parish within the Melton district of Leicestershire, England, which includes the two villages of Buckminster and Sewstern. ![Buckminster](https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d0/R._Buckminster_Fuller_with_his_domed_city_design.jpg/1920px-R._Buckminster_Fuller_with_his_domed_city_design.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) Buckminster · Steve Yelvington The place Buckminster is a village and civil parish within the Melton district of Leicestershire, England, which includes the two villages of Buckminster and Sewstern. The total population of the civil parish was 335 at the 2021 census. It is on the B676 road, 10 miles east of Melton Mowbray and 4 miles west of the A1 at Colsterworth. Adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buckminster), CC BY-SA 4.0. What is there ## Worth seeing in and around Buckminster One place 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. Church of St John the Baptist The Church of St John the Baptist is a church in Buckminster, Leicestershire. It is a Grade I listed building. 600 m · church in Buckminster, Leicestershire, England, UK · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_St_John_the_Baptist,_Buckminster) 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. Go there ## Getting to Buckminster **Airports:** East Midlands (EMA), 42 km · Birmingham (BHX), 80 km · London Luton (LTN), 105 km\ - Nottingham, Leicestershire → Buckminster 35 km · quickest by road, 57 min · £4–5 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/nottingham-leicestershire-to-buckminster) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Nottingham%2C+Leicestershire&to=Buckminster) - Birmingham, West Midlands → Buckminster 84 km · quickest by road, 1h 39m · £10–14 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/birmingham-west-midlands-to-buckminster) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Birmingham%2C+West+Midlands&to=Buckminster) - Luton, Luton → Buckminster 103 km · quickest by road, 2h 1m · £12–16 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/luton-luton-to-buckminster) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Luton%2C+Luton&to=Buckminster) - From anywhere The planner compares every way there from wherever you are. [Plan a trip](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=Buckminster) Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds. Not yet researched ## No local-transport research exists yet for Buckminster 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 Buckminster. 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. [Isle of Wight](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/isle-of-wight) GB 11 ways of moving, 22 sources 238 km 2. [Lundy](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/lundy) GB 7 ways of moving, 11 sources 326 km 3. [Vlieland](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/vlieland) NL 10 ways of moving, 47 sources 384 km 4. [Isle of Arran](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/isle-of-arran) GB 10 ways of moving, 36 sources 423 km 5. [Tarbert, Loch Fyne and Kintyre](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/tarbert-loch-fyne) GB 9 ways of moving, 15 sources 458 km If you know how people move in Buckminster – the stand, the rule, the fare – [tell us](https://www.mixroutes.com/report?key=blog%7Cbuckminster&title=Buckminster&sub=Field+notes&back=%2Fnotes%2Fbuckminster), and the note gets an entry. Around it ## Next door to Buckminster Buckminster is 34 km from [Leicester](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/leicester), the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture. - [Sproxton](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/sproxton) village and civil parish in Leicestershire, UK 2.8 km - [Skillington](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/skillington) village in Lincolnshire, UK 3.9 km - [Gunby](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/gunby) village in South Kesteven, Lincolnshire, United Kingdom 3.5 km - [Gunby and Stainby](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/gunby-and-stainby) civil parish in South Kesteven 3.5 km - [Sewstern](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/sewstern) village in Leicestershire, England, UK 3.2 km - [Stainby](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/stainby) village in Lincolnshire, England, UK 3.2 km [The place page for Buckminster](https://www.mixroutes.com/places/buckminster) [All the notes](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes) [Every note on United Kingdom](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes#c-GB) --- This is the markdown version of https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/buckminster, for search crawlers and AI assistants. 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