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Gawcott

Gawcott is a village about 1.5 miles (2.4 km) southwest of Buckingham in the Buckinghamshire district in the ceremonial county of Buckinghamshire, England.

Gawcott
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The place

Gawcott is a village about 1.5 miles (2.4 km) southwest of Buckingham in the Buckinghamshire district in the ceremonial county of Buckinghamshire, England. The village is in the civil parish of Gawcott with Lenborough.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Gawcott

9 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
    University of Buckingham

    The University of Buckingham is a non-profit private university in Buckingham, England, and the oldest of the country's six private universities. It was founded as the University College at Buckingham in 1973 and admitted its first students in 1976.

    2.1 km · private university in Buckinghamshire, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Buckingham Castle

    Buckingham Castle was situated in the town of Buckingham, the former county town of Buckinghamshire, on the north side of the River Ouse. The castle was first mentioned in documentary sources in 1154–64 and was possibly demolished 1208–1215.

    2.3 km · castle in the United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Church of All Saints

    All Saints’ Church, Hillesden is a Grade I listed parish church in the Church of England in Hillesden, Buckinghamshire.

    3.1 km · Grade I listed church in Hillesden, Buckinghamshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Buckingham Old Gaol

    Buckingham Old Gaol, sometimes known as Lord Cobham's Castle, is a historic building in Buckingham, the former county town of Buckinghamshire, England. The building is now a museum, shop and tourist information centre and is located on Market Hill in the town centre.

    2.7 km · Historic building in Buckingham, England, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Buckingham Chantry Chapel

    Buckingham Chantry Chapel is a 15th-century chapel and a National Trust property in Buckingham, Buckinghamshire, England. The chapel is the oldest building in Buckingham and is noted in particular for its Norman doorway.

    2.6 km · chapel in Buckingham, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    St Peter and St Paul, Buckingham

    Church in Buckingham, Buckinghamshire, England, UK

    2.4 km · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Old Town Hall

    Buckingham Town Hall is a municipal building in the Market Square, Buckingham, Buckinghamshire, England. The structure, which was the meeting place of Buckingham Borough Council, is a Grade II* listed building.

    2.6 km · municipal building in Buckingham, England, UK · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Yeomanry House

    Yeomanry House is a former military headquarters in Buckingham. It is a Grade II listed building.

    2.1 km · house in Buckingham, Buckinghamshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    St Bernardine's Catholic Church, Buckingham

    St Bernardine's is the Roman Catholic Church in Buckingham, England. It is in the joint Parish of Buckingham and Brackley, together with St Martin's Catholic Church, Brackley.

    2.1 km · church building in United Kingdom · 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 Gawcott

Airports
London Luton (LTN), 46 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 68 km · Birmingham (BHX), 73 km
Stations
Buckingham railway station, 2 km · Padbury railway station, 3.6 km · Radclive Halt railway station, 2.3 km · Water Stratford Halt railway station, 3.7 km
  • Luton, Luton → Gawcott
    42 km · quickest by road, 1h 5m · £5–7
  • London → Gawcott
    80 km · quickest by road, 2h 17m · £10–13
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Gawcott
    82 km · quickest by road, 2h 3m · £10–13
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Gawcott

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inA new off-road cycleway connects Buckingham to Winslow via Padbury and Adstock, following the route of the A413.

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

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    145 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    268 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    429 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    483 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    519 km

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

Around it

Next door to Gawcott

Gawcott is 58 km from Coventry, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.