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Farringdon, London

Farringdon is an area in the London Borough of Islington, situated immediately north of its border with the City of London.

Farringdon, London
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The place

Farringdon is an area in the London Borough of Islington, situated immediately north of its border with the City of London. The term is used to describe the area around Farringdon station.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Farringdon, London

Airports
London Heathrow (LHR), 25 km · London Gatwick (LGW), 42 km · London Luton (LTN), 43 km
  • London → Farringdon, London
    2 km · quickest by road, 13 min · £0.5
  • Luton, Luton → Farringdon, London
    45 km · quickest by road, 1h 28m · £5–6
  • London, Essex → Farringdon, London
    2 km · quickest by road, 13 min · £0.5
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Farringdon, London

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 Farringdon, London. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get in}} {{go | name | url | address | long | phone | hours | wikidata=Q800751 | lastedit=2024-08-05 | content=Services: Avanti West Coast from the West Midlands, the North East, North Wales and Scotland, including Watford, Birmingham Airport (), Birmingham New Street, Manchester, Liverpool Llandudno Junction, Holyhead with ferries from and (), Oxenholme Lake District and Glasgow.
  • Get inConnections at London Moorgate are: |wikidata=Q801210}} {{go | name | url | address | long | phone | hours | wikidata=Q801124 | lastedit=2024-08-05 | content=Services: Greater Anglia from the East of England including Hertford, Cambridge, Colchester, Southend-on-Sea, Southend Airport (), Harwich with ferries from (), and Norwich.
  • Get inSouthern from the South East including Gatwick Airport (), Bognor Regis, Epsom and Portsmouth with ferries from and ().
  • Get inAlso from Harwich (via A120, ferries from Hook of Holland, Netherlands).
  • Get inFastest route from Fishguard (ferries from Rosslare, Ireland).

From Wikivoyage: London, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

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    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    125 km
  2. 02
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    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    319 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

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  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    560 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    596 km

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Next door to Farringdon, London

Farringdon, London is 2 km from Islington, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.