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Forest of Marston Vale

The Forest of Marston Vale is an evolving community forest in Marston Vale, which runs south west from the towns of Bedford and Kempston in Bedfordshire, England, towards the M1 motorway.

Forest of Marston Vale
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The place

The Forest of Marston Vale is an evolving community forest in Marston Vale, which runs south west from the towns of Bedford and Kempston in Bedfordshire, England, towards the M1 motorway. It is operated by a registered charity called the Forest of Marston Vale Trust.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Forest of Marston Vale

4 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
    Houghton House

    Houghton House is a ruined mansion house in the parish of Houghton Conquest, Bedfordshire. It is a Grade I listed building, positioned above the surrounding countryside, and commands excellent views.

    3.9 km · Grade I listed English country house in Central Bedfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Church of St Mary the Virgin, Wootton, Bedfordshire

    Church of St Mary the Virgin is a Grade I listed church in Wootton, Bedfordshire, England. It became a listed building on July 13, 1964.

    3.4 km · Grade I listed church in Wootton, Bedford, Bedfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Marston Thrift

    Marston Thrift is a 37.4-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest between Marston Moretaine and Cranfield in Bedfordshire. It was notified in 1984 under Section 28 of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981, and the local planning authority is Central Bedfordshire Council.

    3.4 km · UK Site of Special Scientific Interest · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Church of All Saints, Houghton Conquest

    Church of All Saints is a Grade I listed church in Houghton Conquest, Bedfordshire, England. It became a listed building on 23 January 1961.

    3.7 km · church in Houghton Conquest, Bedfordshire, England, UK · 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.

Go there

Getting to Forest of Marston Vale

Airports
London Luton (LTN), 24 km · London Stansted (STN), 56 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 66 km
Stations
Millbrook railway station, 1.2 km · Lidlington railway station, 3.1 km · Stewartby railway station, 900 m · Kempston Hardwick railway station, 3.6 km
  • London → Forest of Marston Vale
    72 km · quickest by road, 1h 56m · £8–11
  • London, Essex → Forest of Marston Vale
    72 km · quickest by road, 1h 56m · £8–11
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Forest of Marston Vale
    102 km · quickest by road, 2h 14m · £12–16
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Forest of Marston Vale

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 Forest of Marston Vale. 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

    162 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    302 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    395 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    494 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    529 km

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

Around it

Next door to Forest of Marston Vale

Forest of Marston Vale is 59 km from Brent, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Stewartbyvillage and civil parish in Bedfordshire, UK1.4 km
  • Lidlingtonvillage and civil parish in Central Bedfordshire, England3.2 km
  • Marston Moretainevillage in Bedfordshire, England, UK1.1 km
  • Woottonvillage and civil parish in Bedfordshire, UK3.8 km
  • Millbrooksmall village and civil parish in Bedfordshire, England2.9 km
  • Kempston Hardwickvillage in Bedfordshire, England, UK3.6 km