Helmdon

Worth seeing in and around Helmdon

5 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
   Astwell Castle

   Astwell Castle is a manor house in Northamptonshire, England about 1.5 miles south-west of Wappenham. It is a Grade II listed building and part of the parish of Helmdon, a village 1 mile west.

   2.3 km · castle in Helmdon, West Northamptonshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
2. 02
   Weedon Lois Castle Mound

   Weedon Lois Castle was a castle in the village of Weedon Lois, Northamptonshire, England. The castle was the caput baroniae of the barony of Weedon or Weedon Pinkeney.

   3.7 km · castle in Northamptonshire, England · Wikipedia
3. 03
   Sulgrave Manor

   Sulgrave Manor is a mid-16th century Tudor hall house in Sulgrave, Northamptonshire, UK, built by Lawrence Washington, the 3rd great-grandfather of George Washington, first President of the United States. The manor passed out of the hands of the Washington family in the 17th century and by the 19th had descended to the status of a farmhouse.

   3 km · Grade I listed building and house museum in Northamptonshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
4. 04
   Weston Hall

   Weston Hall is a 17th-century manor house in Weston, Northamptonshire. The house was owned by the Sitwell family's ancestors from 1714 to 2021.

   3.2 km · house in Weston, Northamptonshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
5. 05
   Church of St James the Less, Sulgrave

   The Church of St James the Less, Sulgrave, is the Church of England parish church of Sulgrave, a village and civil parish about 5 miles north of Brackley, Northamptonshire. The present church dates largely from the 13th and 14th centuries and is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building.

   3.2 km · church in Sulgrave, Northamptonshire, England, UK · Wikipedia

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Getting to Helmdon

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Birmingham (BHX), 58 km · London Luton (LTN), 58 km · East Midlands (EMA), 83 km

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  67 km · quickest by road, 1h 46m · £9–12
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  55 km · quickest by road, 1h 26m · £7–9
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• London → Helmdon

  95 km · quickest by road, 2h 37m · £12–15
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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 Helmdon. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

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