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Henlow

Henlow is a village and civil parish in the Central Bedfordshire district of the county of Bedfordshire, England, about 11 miles (18 km) south-east of the county town of Bedford.

Henlow
Henlow · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Henlow is a village and civil parish in the Central Bedfordshire district of the county of Bedfordshire, England, about 11 miles (18 km) south-east of the county town of Bedford. The name Henlow is believed to derive from the old English henna hlaw, meaning in old English "hill of birds" or “hill frequented by birds”.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Henlow

6 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
    Church of St Andrew, Langford

    Church of St Andrew is a Grade I listed church in Langford, Bedfordshire, England. It became a listed building on 31 October 1966.

    3.1 km · church in Langford, Bedfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Etonbury Castle

    Etonbury Castle was a castle in the town of Arlesey, located near the road to Baldock, in the county of Bedfordshire, England. An ancient timber castle, attributed to the Danes, Etonbury Castle had a ringwork and one or two baileys.

    1.7 km · castle ruins in Bedfordshire, England · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Church of St Peter, Arlesey

    Church of St Peter is a Grade I listed church in Arlesey, Bedfordshire, England. It became a listed building on 31 October 1966.

    1.9 km · church in Arlesey, Bedfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Catholic Church of St Francis of Assisi

    St Francis of Assisi Church is a Catholic parish church in Shefford, Bedfordshire. The church was built from 1882 to 1884 and designed by Samuel Joseph Nicholl in the Gothic Revival style, and includes the remains of a chapel built in 1791.

    3.4 km · Catholic church building in Shefford, Central Bedfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Church of St Mary the Virgin, Henlow

    Church of St Mary the Virgin is a Grade I listed church in Henlow, Bedfordshire, England. It became a listed building on 31 October 1966.

    300 m · church in Henlow, Bedfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Henlow Grange

    Henlow Grange is an English country house in Henlow, Bedfordshire. It is now operated as a spa hotel.

    700 m · English country house in Bedfordshire, 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.

Go there

Getting to Henlow

Airports
London Luton (LTN), 18 km · London Stansted (STN), 39 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 64 km
Stations
Arlesey railway station, 1.6 km
  • London → Henlow
    59 km · quickest by road, 1h 45m · £6–9
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Henlow
    121 km · quickest by road, 2h 31m · £13–17
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Henlow
    118 km · quickest by road, 2h 25m · £14–19
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Henlow

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get aroundA cycle route runs north–south through the town, mostly off-road, following the railway line.

From Wikivoyage: Biggleswade, 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

    165 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    317 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    381 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    506 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    542 km

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

Around it

Next door to Henlow

Henlow is 53 km from Brent, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

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  • Arleseyvillage-town hybrid and civil parish in Bedfordshire, England, UK3.2 km
  • Langfordvillage and civil parish in Bedfordshire, UK2.4 km
  • Astwickvillage and civil parish in Bedfordshire, UK3.8 km
  • Stondonvillage and civil parish in Bedfordshire, UK3.9 km
  • Lower Stondonvillage in Bedfordshire, England, UK3.7 km