Forthampton
Forthampton is a village in Gloucestershire, England.
Forthampton is a village in Gloucestershire, England. The village is located three miles from the market town of Tewkesbury and features "a great number of interesting buildings", fine views, several duck ponds, a church, a collection of thatched cottages and farmsteads, a village hall and a village club. Forthampton was designated a Conservation Area in 2003 due to its special architectural and historic interest, character and appearance which it was desirable to preserve and enhance. Notable features of the village include extensive historic buildings clustered around farm houses situated at the centre of the village, the many roadside ponds and grass verges around and between buildings and significant panoramic views.
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Worth seeing in and around Forthampton
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.
- 01Tewkesbury Abbey
The Parish Church of St Mary the Virgin, Tewkesbury, commonly known as Tewkesbury Abbey, is located in the town of Tewkesbury in the ceremonial county of Gloucestershire, England. A former Benedictine monastery, it is now a parish church.
3.5 km · abbey in Gloucestershire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 02Mythe Bridge
Mythe Bridge carries the A438 road across the River Severn at Tewkesbury. It is a cast-iron arch bridge spanning 170 feet and 24 feet wide, designed by Thomas Telford and completed in April 1826.
3.4 km · bridge in Mythe, Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 03St Mary's Priory Church, Deerhurst
St Mary's Priory Church, Deerhurst, is the Church of England parish church of Deerhurst, Gloucestershire, England. Much of the church is Anglo-Saxon.
3 km · Grade I listed church in Deerhurst, Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 04Old Baptist Chapel, Tewkesbury
The Old Baptist Chapel is a Grade II* listed building situated in Church Street, Tewkesbury, UK. Records show that a Baptist congregation has been in existence in the town since 1623, but the exact date of the present building is unknown. The building was originally a timber-framed house, believed to date from the 15th century, standing in a back alley now known as "Old Baptist Chapel Court", opposite Tewkesbury Abbey, and may have begun to be used as a meeting place by the local Baptists as early as 1620.
3.4 km · chapel in Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 05Odda's Chapel
Odda's Chapel is a former chantry chapel at Deerhurst, Gloucestershire. It is an 11th-century late Anglo-Saxon building, completed a decade before the Norman Conquest of England.
3.1 km · Grade I listed chapel in Deerhurst, Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 06The Mythe
The Mythe is a house built on the top of a hill overlooking the town of Tewkesbury, England. There has been a house on the site for nearly a thousand years.
3.7 km · country house in Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, England, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Forthampton
- Airports
- Birmingham (BHX), 60 km · Bristol (BRS), 76 km · Cardiff (CWL), 102 km
- Birmingham, West Midlands → Forthampton59 km · quickest by road, 1h 29m · £6–9
- Bristol → Forthampton65 km · quickest by road, 1h 35m · £7–9
- London → Forthampton153 km · quickest by road, 3h 18m · £16–21
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No local-transport research exists yet for Forthampton
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 Forthampton. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
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Next door to Forthampton
Forthampton is 58 km from Birmingham, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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