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Clophill

Clophill is a village and civil parish clustered on the north bank of the River Flit, Bedfordshire, England.

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The place

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.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

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.

  1. 01
    Cainhoe 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
  2. 02
    De 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
  3. 03
    St 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
  4. 04
    St 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
  5. 05
    Maulden 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
  6. 06
    Ruxox 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 → Clophill
    61 km · quickest by road, 1h 48m · £7–9
  • London, Essex → Clophill
    61 km · quickest by road, 1h 48m · £7–9
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Clophill
    112 km · quickest by road, 2h 18m · £12–16
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

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.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get aroundA cycle route runs north–south through the town, mostly off-road, following the railway line.

From Wikivoyage: Biggleswade, 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

    161 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    308 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    390 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    501 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    537 km

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

Around it

Next door to Clophill

Clophill is 53 km from Brent, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Silsoevillage and civil parish in Bedfordshire, England, UK2.1 km
  • Mauldenvillage and civil parish in Bedfordshire, UK3.1 km
  • Upper Gravenhurstvillage in Bedfordshire, England, UK3.6 km
  • Flittonvillage in Bedfordshire, UK2.9 km
  • Greenfieldvillage in Bedfordshire, England, UK3.9 km
  • Beadlowvillage in Bedfordshire, England, UK2.9 km