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Fairford

Fairford is a market town in Gloucestershire, England.

Fairford
Fairford · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Fairford is a market town in Gloucestershire, England. The town lies in the Cotswold hills on the River Coln, 6 miles (10 km) east of Cirencester, 4 miles (6 km) west of Lechlade and 9 miles (14 km) north of Swindon. Nearby are RAF Fairford and the Cotswold Water Park.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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What Wikivoyage says to see

  1. 01
    St Mary

    Late Perpendicular 'wool' church with its pinnacled tower, magnificent stained medieval stained glass and a wealth of carvings in both wood and stone.

From Wikivoyage: Fairford, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

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Getting to Fairford

Airports
Bristol (BRS), 74 km · Birmingham (BHX), 83 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 95 km
  • London → Fairford
    116 km · quickest by road, 2h 33m · £14–18
  • Bristol → Fairford
    63 km · quickest by road, 1h 38m · £7–9
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Fairford
    86 km · quickest by road, 2h 19m · £11–14
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Fairford

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 Fairford. 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

    118 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    209 km
  3. 03
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    483 km
  4. 04
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    490 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    520 km

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