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Burton Overy

Burton Overy is a village and civil parish in the Harborough district of Leicestershire, about nine miles south-east of Leicester city centre, and not far from Great Glen.

Burton Overy
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The place

Burton Overy is a village and civil parish in the Harborough district of Leicestershire, about nine miles south-east of Leicester city centre, and not far from Great Glen. According to the 2001 census, the parish had a population of 289., increasing at the 2011 census to 440.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Burton Overy

5 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
    Carlton Curlieu Hall

    Carlton Curlieu Hall is a privately owned 17th-century country house at Carlton Curlieu, Leicestershire. It is the home of the Palmer family and is a Grade II* listed building.

    1.7 km · country house in Leicestershire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Kibworth Harcourt Mill

    Kibworth Harcourt Mill is a post mill in Kibworth Harcourt, Leicestershire, England. It dates from the early 18th century; it is a Grade II* listed building, and a scheduled monument.

    2.8 km · mill building in Kibworth Harcourt, Harborough, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Wistow Hall

    Wistow Hall is a 17th-century country house in Wistow, Leicestershire, England which has been converted into an apartment building. It is Grade II* listed.

    3.9 km · country house in Leicestershire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Great Glen Methodist Church

    Great Glen Methodist Church, Leicestershire, was built in 1827 and a church hall was later added to the east of the church in 1879.

    2.4 km · church in Great Glen, Harborough, Leicestershire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Kibworth Cricket Club New Ground

    Kibworth Cricket Club New Ground is a cricket ground in Kibworth, Leicestershire, England. The ground replaced the original Kibworth Cricket Club Ground which was sold for development at the end of the 2005 season.

    3.4 km · cricket ground in Kibworth, Leicestershire, England · 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 Burton Overy

Airports
East Midlands (EMA), 37 km · Birmingham (BHX), 52 km · London Luton (LTN), 88 km
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Burton Overy
    62 km · quickest by road, 1h 37m · £7–10
  • Luton, Luton → Burton Overy
    86 km · quickest by road, 2h 13m · £10–14
  • London → Burton Overy
    132 km · quickest by road, 2h 57m · £15–20
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Burton Overy

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 Burton Overy. 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

    210 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    296 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    408 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    430 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    465 km

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

Around it

Next door to Burton Overy

Burton Overy is 12 km from Leicester, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Harboroughlocal government district in Leicestershire, England, UK3.1 km
  • Great Glenvillage and civil parish in Leicestershire, United Kingdom2.4 km
  • Illston on the Hillvillage in Leicestershire, England, UK3.6 km
  • Little Strettonvillage and civil parish in Harborough, Leicestershire, England, UK3.3 km
  • Carlton Curlieuvillage and civil parish in Leicestershire, United Kingdom1.5 km
  • Kibworth Harcourtvillage and civil parish in Harborough, Leicestershire, England2.5 km