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Grafton Underwood

Grafton Underwood is a village and civil parish in North Northamptonshire, England.

Grafton Underwood
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The place

Grafton Underwood is a village and civil parish in North Northamptonshire, England. At the time of the 2001 census, the parish's population was 134 people, increasing to 146 at the 2011 census. The village was used in Helen Fielding's Bridget Jones novels as her childhood home.

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What is there

Worth seeing in and around Grafton Underwood

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
    Boughton House

    Boughton House is a country house in the parish of Weekley in Northamptonshire, England, located about 3 miles north-east of Kettering. It is situated within an estate of 11,000 acres.

    2.7 km · Grade I listed country house in Weekley, Northamptonshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Drayton House

    Drayton House is a Grade I listed country house of many periods 1 mile south-west of the village of Lowick, Northamptonshire, England. Described as Northamptonshire's most impressive medieval mansion by Nikolaus Pevsner, "one of the best-kept secrets of the English country house world" by architectural historian Gervase Jackson-Stops, and "a most venerable heap of ugliness, with many curious bits" by Horace Walpole, the house is generally held to have been begun in 1328.

    3.8 km · Grade I listed building in Lowick, East Northamptonshire, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    St Andrew's Church, Cranford

    St Andrew's Church is a redundant Anglican church in Cranford St Andrew, Northamptonshire, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building, and is under the care of the Churches Conservation Trust.

    3.2 km · church in Northamptonshire, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Church of St Mary Magdalen

    St Mary Magdalene is a Church of England church in Geddington, Northamptonshire, England. It is a grade I listed building.

    3.9 km · Grade I listed church in Geddington, North Northamptonshire, England, UK · Wikipedia

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Getting to Grafton Underwood

Airports
London Luton (LTN), 63 km · East Midlands (EMA), 66 km · Birmingham (BHX), 75 km
  • Luton, Luton → Grafton Underwood
    61 km · quickest by road, 1h 48m · £7–9
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Grafton Underwood
    69 km · quickest by road, 2h 6m · £10–13
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Grafton Underwood
    86 km · quickest by road, 1h 48m · £9–12
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Grafton Underwood

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 Grafton Underwood. 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

    197 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    309 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    389 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    458 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    493 km

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Around it

Next door to Grafton Underwood

Grafton Underwood is 41 km from Leicester, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

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  • Cranfordcivil parish in Northamptonshire, England3 km