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Glinton

Glinton is a village in the north of the City of Peterborough unitary authority area in Cambridgeshire, England.

The place

Glinton is a village in the north of the City of Peterborough unitary authority area in Cambridgeshire, England. Historically in Northamptonshire, it has a population of 3,130 and consists of about 1,200 dwellings. It is separated from the urban sprawl of Peterborough and the new township of Werrington by the A15, the Peterborough bypass.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Glinton

3 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
    Woodcroft Castle

    Woodcroft Castle is a moated medieval castle in the parish of Etton, Cambridgeshire, England.

    2.1 km · medieval castle in the parish of Etton, Cambridgeshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Maxey Castle

    Maxey Castle was a medieval fortified manor house castle in Maxey, Cambridgeshire, England.

    3.7 km · castle, now ruinous, in Maxey, Cambridgeshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Northborough Manor House

    Northborough Manor House, also known as Northborough Hall or Northborough Castle Farmhouse, is a medieval fortified manor house, and Grade I listed building in the village of Northborough in Cambridgeshire, England.

    1.9 km · Grade I listed house in Northborough, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, 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 Glinton

Airports
East Midlands (EMA), 73 km · London Luton (LTN), 85 km · London Stansted (STN), 91 km
Stations
Helpston railway station, 2.4 km
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Glinton
    67 km · quickest by road, 1h 53m · £8–11
  • Luton, Luton → Glinton
    85 km · quickest by road, 2h 10m · £9–13
  • London, Essex → Glinton
    126 km · quickest by road, 3h 9m · £13–18
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Glinton

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 Glinton. 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

    228 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    341 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    360 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    454 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    488 km

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

Around it

Next door to Glinton

Glinton is 56 km from Leicester, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Northboroughvillage and civil parish in Cambridgeshire, UK1.5 km
  • Marholmvillage and civil parish in Cambridgeshire, UK3.5 km
  • Ettonvillage and civil parish in Cambridgeshire, England, UK2 km
  • Peakirkvillage and civil parish in Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom2 km
  • Deeping St Jamesvillage and civil parish in Lincolnshire, England, UK3.6 km
  • Deeping Gatevillage and civil parish in Cambridgeshire, England, UK3.5 km