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Great Addington

Great Addington is a small village and civil parish in Northamptonshire, England.

The place

Great Addington is a small village and civil parish in Northamptonshire, England. It lies near the west bank of the River Nene, about 5 miles (8 km) east of Kettering. It consists of approximately 100 households; at the time of the 2011 census, the population of the parish was 327 people. It has a school, church, manor house, village hall, a pub called the Hare & Hounds, playing fields and homes. There is a strong bond and rivalry with the neighbouring village Little Addington.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Great Addington

7 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
    Raunds

    Raunds is a market town in North Northamptonshire, England. It had a population of 9,379 at the 2021 census.

    3.9 km · small market town in rural Northamptonshire, England · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Church of St Lawrence

    The Church of St Laurence is a Grade I listed building in the village of Stanwick in North Northamptonshire. It was originally within the Church of England Diocese of Lincoln but was transferred to the Diocese of Peterborough in 1541 towards the end of the Dissolution of the Monasteries during Henry VIII's reign.

    3.9 km · church in Stanwick, Northamptonshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Stanwick Hall

    Stanwick Hall is a largely Georgian grade II* listed building located in the western end of the village of Stanwick, in the North Northamptonshire district, in the ceremonial county of Northamptonshire, England.

    3.8 km · 18th-century building in Stanwick, Northamptonshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Stanwick War Memorial

    The War Memorial is a Grade II listed structure located in the churchyard of the Church of St Laurence in the village of Stanwick. The memorial is a tapering octagonal shaft, about 5 metres tall, made of sandstone.

    3.9 km · war memorial in Stanwick, East Northamptonshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Stanwick Lakes

    Stanwick Lakes is a country park on the outskirts of the village of Stanwick, Northamptonshire, England. Opened in 2006, it is managed by the Rockingham Forest Trust on behalf of East Northamptonshire District Council and comprises 750 acres of former gravel pits.

    3.2 km · country park in Northamptonshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Cranford St John SSSI

    Cranford St John SSSI is a 2.8-hectare geological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Cranford St John, east of Kettering in Northamptonshire. It is a Geological Conservation Review site.

    3.8 km · UK Site of Special Scientific Interest · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Kinewell Lake

    Kinewell Lake is a 35.4 hectare Local Nature Reserve west of Ringstead in Northamptonshire, England. It is owned by Ringstead Parish Council and managed by Kinewell Lake Trust.

    2.1 km · park 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 Great Addington

Airports
London Luton (LTN), 56 km · East Midlands (EMA), 72 km · London Stansted (STN), 78 km
  • Luton, Luton → Great Addington
    55 km · quickest by road, 1h 29m · £5–7
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Great Addington
    75 km · quickest by road, 2h 4m · £10–14
  • London → Great Addington
    101 km · quickest by road, 2h 43m · £11–15
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Great Addington

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 Great Addington. 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

    192 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    310 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    388 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    465 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    500 km

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

Around it

Next door to Great Addington

Great Addington is 48 km from Leicester, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Twywellvillage and civil parish in Northamptonshire, United Kingdom3.6 km
  • Ringsteadvillage and civil parish in Northamptonshire, UK3 km
  • Woodfordvillage and civil parish in Northamptonshire, England, UK2.5 km
  • Little Addingtonvillage and civil parish in Northamptonshire, England, UK1.1 km
  • Cranford St Johnvillage in Northamptonshire, United Kingdom4 km
  • Woodwellvillage in Northamptonshire, United Kingdom3.1 km