Ickwell
Ickwell is a small, rural village in the Central Bedfordshire district of the county of Bedfordshire, England about 6.5 miles (10 km) south-east of the county town of Bedford.
Ickwell is a small, rural village in the Central Bedfordshire district of the county of Bedfordshire, England about 6.5 miles (10 km) south-east of the county town of Bedford. Ickwell is part of the civil parish of Northill. The 2011 census shows its population as 298. The village is known for its maypole and for being the birthplace of Thomas Tompion, the "Father of English Clockmaking".
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Worth seeing in and around Ickwell
10 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.
- 01Shuttleworth Collection
The Shuttleworth Collection is a working aviation, automotive and agricultural collection located at Old Warden Aerodrome in Bedfordshire, England.
800 m · aviation museum in Old Warden, Bedfordshire · Wikipedia - 02Wardon Abbey
Wardon or Warden Abbey, Bedfordshire, was one of the senior Cistercian houses of England, founded about 1135 from Rievaulx Abbey. It is a Grade I listed building.
3.4 km · Grade I listed building in Old Warden, Bedfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 03Biggleswade Castle
Biggleswade Castle was a ringwork and bailey castle in the market town of Biggleswade in Bedfordshire, England. The existence of this castle was discovered by aerial photography, in 1954.
3.5 km · Castle in Bedfordshire, England · Wikipedia - 04Old Warden Castle
Old Warden Castle, also known as Quince Hill, is located in the village of Old Warden, in the county of Bedfordshire, England. It is uncertain whether it is a motte castle or a ringwork.
1.7 km · castle in Old Warden, Central Bedfordshire, Bedfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 05Southill Park
Southill Park contains the site of late medieval Gastlings or Gastlyns Manor House and is the name given to a country house in Southill, Bedfordshire, its adjoining privately owned gardens and separate public parkland; it includes a lake and woodland. Its focal point is an early Georgian house, for disambiguation known as Southill Park House which is a heritage-listed building in the highest category.
3.6 km · Grade I listed country house in Southill, Bedfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 06Church of St Leonard, Old Warden
The Abbey Church of St Leonard of Old Warden is a Grade I listed church in Old Warden, Bedfordshire, England. It became a listed building on 31 October 1966.
1.8 km · church in Old Warden, Bedfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 07Church of St Mary the Virgin, Northill
Church of St Mary the Virgin is a Grade I listed church in Northill, Bedfordshire, England. It has been listed Grade I on the National Heritage List for England since October 1966.
1 km · church in Northill, Bedfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 08Shuttleworth College, Bedfordshire
Shuttleworth College is a specialist land-based further education college in Old Warden, Bedfordshire, United Kingdom. Shuttleworth College is a member of the Bedford College Group, and the Landex organisation.
1.3 km · Land-based further education college in Old Warden, Bedfordshire · Wikipedia - 09Ickwell Bury
Ickwell Bury, at the heart of the former manor of Ickwell, Bedfordshire, was first built by John Harvey in 1683 near the site of an older manor house. The Harvey family continued to own the house until 1925, although from 1900 it had housed Horton Preparatory School.
500 m · country house in Bedfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 10Church of St Andrew
St Andrew's Church is the Anglican parish church for the town of Biggleswade in Bedfordshire, England. The church is Grade II* listed and comes under the Diocese of St Albans.
3.9 km · church in Biggleswade, Bedfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Ickwell
- Airports
- London Luton (LTN), 25 km · London Stansted (STN), 45 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 70 km
- Stations
- Old Warden Aerodrome, 1.1 km
- London, Essex → Ickwell67 km · quickest by road, 1h 53m · £7–10
- London → Ickwell67 km · quickest by road, 1h 53m · £7–10
- Birmingham, West Midlands → Ickwell116 km · quickest by road, 2h 33m · £13–17
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Ickwell
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 Ickwell. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get aroundA cycle route runs north–south through the town, mostly off-road, following the railway line.
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Next door to Ickwell
- Old Wardenvillage and civil parish in Bedfordshire, UK2.4 km
- Moggerhangervillage and civil parish in Bedfordshire, UK3.8 km
- Southillvillage and civil parish in Bedfordshire, UK3.5 km
- Northillvillage and civil parish in Bedfordshire, England, UK1 km
- Beestonvillage in Bedfordshire, United Kingdom3.1 km
- Broomvillage in Bedfordshire, UK3.3 km