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Glooston

Glooston is a small village and civil parish in the Harborough district of Leicestershire, England.

The place

Glooston is a small village and civil parish in the Harborough district of Leicestershire, England. According to the 2001 census the parish had a population of 54, increasing to 147 at the 2011 census.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Glooston

2 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 Michael and All Angels

    St Michael's church, Hallaton is a parish church in the town of Hallaton, Leicestershire. It is a Grade I listed building.

    3.7 km · historic church in Hallaton, Leicestershire, England, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Noseley Hall

    Noseley Hall is a privately owned 18th-century country house situated at Noseley, Billesdon, Leicestershire. It is a Grade II* listed building.

    2.9 km · country house in Leicestershire, 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 Glooston

Airports
East Midlands (EMA), 42 km · Birmingham (BHX), 59 km · London Luton (LTN), 84 km
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Glooston
    48 km · quickest by road, 1h 36m · £6–8
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Glooston
    68 km · quickest by road, 1h 54m · £9–11
  • Luton, Luton → Glooston
    82 km · quickest by road, 2h 10m · £10–13
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Glooston

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 Glooston. 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

    210 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    301 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    402 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    435 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    470 km

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

Around it

Next door to Glooston

Glooston is 18 km from Leicester, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

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  • Noseleyvillage and civil parish in Leicestershire, United Kingdom3.3 km
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