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Cold Overton

Cold Overton is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Knossington and Cold Overton, in the Melton district of Leicestershire, England.

Cold Overton
Cold Overton · The National Churches Trust
The place

Cold Overton is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Knossington and Cold Overton, in the Melton district of Leicestershire, England. It is close to the border with Rutland, and approximately 3 miles (5 km) west from the market and county town of Oakham, and 1.5 miles (2.4 km) south-west of the A606 road. In 1931 the parish had a population of 133.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Cold Overton

2 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
    Church of St Peter and St Paul

    The Church of St Peter and St Paul is a church in Langham, Rutland. The Church of England parish church is a Grade I listed building.

    3.6 km · church in Langham, Rutland, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Cold Overton Hall

    Cold Overton Hall is a country house in the village of Cold Overton, Leicestershire, England. Built c. 1630 for John St John, it is a Grade I listed building.

    0 m · Grade I listed country house in Knossington and Cold Overton, Melton, Leicestershire, England, UK · Wikipedia

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Getting to Cold Overton

Airports
East Midlands (EMA), 39 km · Birmingham (BHX), 69 km · London Luton (LTN), 95 km
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Cold Overton
    78 km · quickest by road, 2h 5m · £10–13
  • Luton, Luton → Cold Overton
    93 km · quickest by road, 2h 29m · £11–14
  • London → Cold Overton
    139 km · quickest by road, 3h 10m · £15–20
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Cold Overton

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 Cold Overton. 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

    224 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    313 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    393 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    428 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    463 km

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Around it

Next door to Cold Overton

Cold Overton is 23 km from Leicester, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Langhamvillage and civil parish in Rutland, UK3.9 km
  • Somerbyvillage and civil parish in Leicestershire, England, United Kingdom3.1 km
  • Knossingtonvillage in Leicestershire, UK1.7 km
  • Pickwellvillage in Somerby, Melton, Leicestershire, England2.8 km
  • Leesthorpevillage in Leicestershire, England, UK3.9 km