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Faxton

Faxton is an abandoned village in the civil parish of Lamport, in the West Northamptonshire district, in the ceremonial county of Northamptonshire in England.

The place

Faxton is an abandoned village in the civil parish of Lamport, in the West Northamptonshire district, in the ceremonial county of Northamptonshire in England. The site is a scheduled monument. Nearby are the villages of Old, Lamport and Mawsley and the Northampton and Lamport Railway.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Faxton

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
    Church of St Mary the Virgin

    St Mary the Virgin's Church is an Anglican Church and the parish church of Maidwell, Northamptonshire. It is a Grade II* listed building and stands on the south side of Draughton Road.

    3.9 km · church in Maidwell, Northamptonshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Church of St Andrew

    St Andrew's Church is an Anglican church and the parish church of Old, Northamptonshire. It is a Grade I listed building and stands at Church Lane, on the south side of the village.

    2.1 km · Grade I listed church in Old, Northamptonshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    St Catherine's Church, Draughton

    St Catherine's Church is an Anglican Church and the parish church of Draughton in Northamptonshire. It is a Grade II* listed building and stands in the village of Draughton.

    2.7 km · church in Draughton, Northamptonshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Church of All Saints, Lamport

    The Church of All Saints is the Church of England parish church of Lamport, Northamptonshire. It is a Grade I listed building and stands on the north side of the High Street.

    2.7 km · church in Lamport, Northamptonshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Lamport Hall

    Lamport Hall in Lamport, Northamptonshire is a fine example of a Grade I listed building. It was developed from a Tudor manor but is now notable for its classical frontage.

    2.6 km · Grade I listed country house in Northamptonshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Birch Spinney and Mawsley Marsh

    Birch Spinney and Mawsley Marsh is a 12.3-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest north-west of Broughton in Northamptonshire. Birch Spinney is a rare type of ash-maple woodland partly on peat.

    2.9 km · biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in England · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Faxton

Airports
East Midlands (EMA), 61 km · Birmingham (BHX), 62 km · London Luton (LTN), 64 km
Stations
RAF Harrington, 2.7 km
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Faxton
    68 km · quickest by road, 1h 53m · £9–12
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Faxton
    72 km · quickest by road, 1h 36m · £8–10
  • Luton, Luton → Faxton
    62 km · quickest by road, 1h 36m · £7–9
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Faxton

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 Faxton. 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

    190 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    294 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    404 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    453 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    489 km

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

Around it

Next door to Faxton

Faxton is 36 km from Leicester, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Walgravevillage and civil parish in Northamptonshire, United Kingdom3.4 km
  • Mawsleyvillage in Northamptonshire, England, UK2.6 km
  • Thorpe Malsorvillage and civil parish in Northamptonshire, United Kingdom1.7 km
  • Scaldwellvillage and civil parish in Northamptonshire, United Kingdom3.3 km
  • Oldvillage and civil parish in Northamptonshire, United Kingdom1.7 km
  • Draughtonvillage and civil parish in Northamptonshire, United Kingdom2.9 km