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Higham Gobion

Higham Gobion is a village in the civil parish of Shillington, in the Central Bedfordshire district of Bedfordshire, England.

The place

Higham Gobion is a village in the civil parish of Shillington, in the Central Bedfordshire district of Bedfordshire, England. It is located between the villages of Shillington and Barton-le-Clay.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Higham Gobion

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
    Barton Hills, Bedfordshire

    Barton Hills are situated southeast of the village of Barton-le-Clay in the English county of Bedfordshire. They are part of the Chilterns and hiking routes are marked on maps at the entrance to the hills.

    3.5 km · nature reserve and Site of Special Scientific Interest near Barton-le-Clay, Bedfordshire · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    St Mary's Church

    St Mary's Church is a redundant Anglican church in the village of Lower Gravenhurst, Bedfordshire, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building, and is under the care of the Churches Conservation Trust.

    2.6 km · church in Lower Gravenhurst, Bedfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Church of St Faith (Church of England)

    Saint Faith's Church, Hexton is the Anglican parish church for the village of Hexton, Hertfordshire. The church is within the parish of Barton-le-Clay in the Diocese of St Albans.

    2.4 km · church in Hexton, Hertfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Knocking Hoe

    Knocking Hoe is a 7.7-hectare National Nature Reserve and biological Site of Special Scientific Interest near Pegsdon in Bedfordshire. It is mentioned in A Nature Conservation Review.

    3.4 km · UK Site of Special Scientific Interest · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Deacon Hill

    Deacon Hill SSSI is a 35.4-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Pegsdon in Bedfordshire. It is in the Chilterns Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, and it is part of the Pegsdon Hills and Hoo Bit nature reserve, managed by Wildlife Trust for Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire.

    3.7 km · biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Pegsdon in Bedfordshire, England · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Church of St Nicholas, Barton le Clay

    Church of St Nicholas is a Grade I listed church in Barton le Clay, Bedfordshire, England. It became a listed building on 3 February 1967.

    3 km · church in Barton-le-Clay, 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 Higham Gobion

Airports
London Luton (LTN), 12 km · London Stansted (STN), 44 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 57 km
  • London → Higham Gobion
    56 km · quickest by road, 1h 46m · £6–9
  • London, Essex → Higham Gobion
    56 km · quickest by road, 1h 46m · £6–9
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Higham Gobion
    117 km · quickest by road, 2h 30m · £12–17
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Higham Gobion

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inIt's a major hub for the budget airlines easyJet, Ryanair and Wizz Air, and for charter flights by Tui.

From Wikivoyage: Luton, 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

    157 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    309 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    390 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    507 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    542 km

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

Around it

Next door to Higham Gobion

Higham Gobion is 48 km from Brent, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Barton-le-Clayvillage in and civil parish in Central Bedfordshire, Bedfordshire, United Kingdom2.7 km
  • Silsoevillage and civil parish in Bedfordshire, England, UK3.6 km
  • Shillingtonvillage and civil parish in Bedfordshire, England, UK2.5 km
  • Gravenhurstcivil parish in Central Bedfordshire, Bedfordshire, England, UK2.7 km
  • Hextonvillage and civil parish in Hertfordshire, England2.4 km
  • Upper Gravenhurstvillage in Bedfordshire, England, UK3.4 km