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Worth seeing in and around Ilchester

7 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
    Mount Gilboa Chapel

    Mount Gilboa Chapel is a historic African Methodist Episcopal Church located in Oella, Maryland, United States. It is a small stone church measuring 28 feet by 42 feet, built about 1859 by free African Americans.

    2.9 km · historic church in Maryland, United States · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Lilburn

    Lilburn Mansion is a historic house in Ellicott City, Howard County, Maryland. The structure sits on what was once part of a 2,500-acre land grant called Valley of Owen.

    3.1 km · building in Ellicott City, Maryland · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Patapsco Hotel

    Patapsco Hotel is a historic granite building located in Ellicott City, Maryland, on the western bank of the Patapsco River. The current building is built with materials from an older granite construction hotel on the same site and is known as the Thomas' Patapsco Hotel, Wilson Patapsco Hotel, Stewart's Hotel, and McGowan's Hotel.

    3.2 km · historic building in Ellicott City, Maryland · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    First Presbyterian Church

    First Presbyterian Church is a historic church in Ellicott City, Howard County, Maryland adjacent to the Howard County Circuit Courthouse. The church is a cruciform-shaped structure made of granite stone construction.

    3.5 km · church in Ellicott City, Maryland · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Benjamin Banneker Historical Park and Museum

    Oella is a mill town on the Patapsco River in western Baltimore County, Maryland, United States, located between Catonsville and Ellicott City. It is a 19th-century village of millworkers' homes.

    2.3 km · a park and museum commemorating free African-American naturalist Benjamin Banneker · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Patterson Viaduct

    The Patterson Viaduct was built by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad as part of its Old Main Line during May to December 1829. The viaduct spanned the Patapsco River at Ilchester, Maryland.

    200 m · bridge in Ilchester, Maryland · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    St. Luke's African Methodist Episcopal Church

    St. Luke African Methodist Episcopal Church is a historic African Methodist Episcopal Church located at 8411 Main Street in Ellicott City, Maryland.

    3.7 km · building in Ellicott City, United States of America · Wikipedia

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Getting to Ilchester

Airports
Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall (BWI), 12 km · Ronald Reagan Washington National (DCA), 50 km · Washington Dulles (IAD), 69 km
Stations
Ellicott City Station, 3.2 km
  • Washington → Ilchester
    46 km · quickest by road, 1h 23m · $4–6
  • Dulles → Ilchester
    67 km · quickest by road, 1h 53m · $7–10
  • Philadelphia → Ilchester
    158 km · quickest by road, 3h 5m · $14–20
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No local-transport research exists yet for Ilchester

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inDuring the months of April–September, you can take Ed Kane's water taxi back and forth between the pier at Fells Point.

From Wikivoyage: Baltimore/South Baltimore, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
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    Fire IslandUS

    10 ways of moving, 18 sources

    345 km
  2. 02
    Vinalhaven and the Fox IslandsUS

    9 ways of moving, 13 sources

    847 km
  3. 03
    BacalarMX

    9 ways of moving, 41 sources

    2,546 km
  4. 04
    ViequesPR

    8 ways of moving, 12 sources

    2,590 km
  5. 05
    Tortola and the British Virgin IslandsVG

    11 ways of moving, 15 sources

    2,594 km

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Next door to Ilchester

Ilchester is 14 km from Baltimore, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.