Clophill
Clophill is a village and civil parish clustered on the north bank of the River Flit, Bedfordshire, England.
Clophill is a village and civil parish clustered on the north bank of the River Flit, Bedfordshire, England. It is recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Clopelle. "Clop" likely means 'tree-stump' in Old English. However, it also has cognate terms for clay, with which the soil of mid Bedfordshire is rich.
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Worth seeing in and around Clophill
6 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.
- 01Cainhoe Castle
Cainhoe Castle was an 11th-century Norman castle, located near the village of Clophill, in the county of Bedfordshire, England. Cainhoe Castle was a motte and triple bailey castle, built by Nigel d'Aubigny, a Norman Knight, sometime after the Norman Invasion.
1.5 km · 11th century Norman castle in England · Wikipedia - 02De Grey Mausoleum
The de Grey Mausoleum in Flitton, Bedfordshire, England, is one of the largest sepulchral chapels in the country. The mausoleum contains over twenty monuments to the de Grey family who lived in nearby Wrest Park.
2.9 km · Grade I listed building in Flitton, Central Bedfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 03St Mary's Church
St Mary's Church is a redundant Anglican church in the village of Lower Gravenhurst, Bedfordshire, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building, and is under the care of the Churches Conservation Trust.
3.8 km · church in Lower Gravenhurst, Bedfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 04St Marys Church, Clophill
The present St Mary's Church is located in the centre of the small village of Clophill, between Bedford and Luton in the county of Bedfordshire in the South Midlands of England. The new church, built in 1848, replaced the old church by order of the Church Commissioners in 1850.
1.6 km · church in Clophill, Bedfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 05Maulden Heath
Maulden Heath is a 7.6-hectare Site of Special Scientific Interest in Maulden in Bedfordshire. It was notified in 1986 under Section 28 of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981, and the local planning authority is Central Bedfordshire Council.
1.5 km · English Site of Special Scientific Interest · Wikipedia - 06Ruxox Cell
Ruxox Cell was a moated chapel, or monastic cell, established in the twelfth century in the parish of Flitwick in Bedfordshire, England. Situated on the east side of the village of Ruxox, it was granted to the Augustinian priory of Dunstable by Philip de Sanvill, Lord of Flitwick, c.
3.8 km · moated site in Flitwick, Bedfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Clophill
- Airports
- London Luton (LTN), 17 km · London Stansted (STN), 48 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 62 km
- London → Clophill61 km · quickest by road, 1h 48m · £7–9
- London, Essex → Clophill61 km · quickest by road, 1h 48m · £7–9
- Birmingham, West Midlands → Clophill112 km · quickest by road, 2h 18m · £12–16
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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 Clophill
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 Clophill. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get aroundA cycle route runs north–south through the town, mostly off-road, following the railway line.
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Clophill is 53 km from Brent, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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