Grendon
Grendon or "Grenrian" as the locals call it, is a small village and civil parish in rural Northamptonshire, England, on the borders of Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire.
Grendon or "Grenrian" as the locals call it, is a small village and civil parish in rural Northamptonshire, England, on the borders of Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire. Many houses are made of the local limestone and various older thatched houses survive. The name of the village means "green hill" and today the village remains centred on the hill. As with Earls Barton, the village was owned by Judith of Lens, the niece of William the Conqueror.
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Worth seeing in and around Grendon
One place 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.
- 01Castle Ashby House
Castle Ashby, often Castle Ashby House is a country house at Castle Ashby, Northamptonshire, England. It is one of the seats of the Marquess of Northampton.
2 km · country house in Castle Ashby, Northamptonshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Grendon
- Airports
- London Luton (LTN), 46 km · Birmingham (BHX), 74 km · London Stansted (STN), 76 km
- Stations
- Castle Ashby & Earls Barton railway station, 2.4 km
- Luton, Luton → Grendon44 km · quickest by road, 1h 13m · £5–7
- London → Grendon90 km · quickest by road, 2h 25m · £10–13
- Birmingham, West Midlands → Grendon85 km · quickest by road, 1h 56m · £10–13
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No local-transport research exists yet for Grendon
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 Grendon. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
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Next door to Grendon
Grendon is 53 km from Leicester, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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- Easton Mauditvillage and civil parish in Northamptonshire, United Kingdom2 km
- Strixtonvillage in Northamptonshire, United Kingdom3 km
- Castle Ashbyvillage and civil parish in Northamptonshire, United Kingdom2 km
- Chadstonevillage in Northamptonshire, England3.1 km