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Great Horwood

Great Horwood is a small village and civil parish within the unitary authority area of Buckinghamshire, England.

Great Horwood
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The place

Great Horwood is a small village and civil parish within the unitary authority area of Buckinghamshire, England. At the 2011 Census it had a population of 1,049. It is about five miles ESE of Buckingham, six miles WSW of Milton Keynes.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Great Horwood

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
    Winslow Hall

    Winslow Hall is a country house, now in the centre of the small town of Winslow, Buckinghamshire, England. Built in 1700, it was sited in the centre of the town, with a public front facing the highway and a garden front that still commanded 22 acres in 2007, due to William Lowndes' gradual purchase of a block of adjacent houses and gardens from 1693 onwards.

    3.5 km · country house in Wilmslow, Buckinghamshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Church of St Laurence

    St Laurence's Church is a Church of England parish church in Winslow, Buckinghamshire. It is a grade II* listed building.

    3.4 km · church in Winslow, Buckinghamshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Winslow War Memorial

    Winslow War Memorial is located in High Street, Winslow, Buckinghamshire, England. It is a grade II listed building with Historic England and commemorates men who died in the First World War with later additions for the Second World War, Malayan Emergency and Falklands Conflict.

    3.5 km · grade II listed building in Winslow, Buckinghamshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Horwood House

    Horwood House lies 0.5-mile south east of the village of Little Horwood in Buckinghamshire. This Grade II listed building mansion is a comparatively modern house, built in 1911, the date being embossed into the gutter hopper-heads.

    2.9 km · country house in Little Horwood, Buckinghamshire, 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.

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Getting to Great Horwood

Airports
London Luton (LTN), 37 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 63 km · London Stansted (STN), 77 km
Stations
Swanbourne railway station, 3.2 km
  • London → Great Horwood
    73 km · quickest by road, 2h 5m · £9–12
  • London, Essex → Great Horwood
    73 km · quickest by road, 2h 5m · £9–12
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Great Horwood
    89 km · quickest by road, 2h 10m · £11–14
  • From anywhere
    The planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Great Horwood

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inAn off-road cycleway follows the route of the A413 and runs to Buckingham.

From Wikivoyage: Winslow (England), 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

    146 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    277 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    421 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    489 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    524 km

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

Around it

Next door to Great Horwood

Great Horwood is 58 km from Reading, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

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  • Little Horwoodvillage and civil parish in Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom2 km