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Ilmington

Ilmington is a village and civil parish about 3.5 miles (5.6 km) north-west of Shipston-on-Stour and 8 miles (13 km) south of Stratford-upon-Avon in the Cotswolds in Warwickshire, England.

Ilmington
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The place

Ilmington is a village and civil parish about 3.5 miles (5.6 km) north-west of Shipston-on-Stour and 8 miles (13 km) south of Stratford-upon-Avon in the Cotswolds in Warwickshire, England. The population of the civil parish taken at the 2011 census was 712. Ilmington is the highest village in Warwickshire and is at the foot of the Ilmington Downs, which is the highest point in Warwickshire. Residents are called "Ilmingtonians".

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Ilmington

2 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
    Hidcote Manor Garden

    Hidcote Manor Garden is a garden in the United Kingdom, located at the village of Hidcote Bartrim, near Chipping Campden, Gloucestershire. It is one of the best-known and most influential Arts and Crafts gardens in Britain, with its linked "garden rooms" of hedges, rare trees, shrubs and herbaceous borders.

    3.6 km · historic garden in England · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Ebrington Hill

    Ebrington Hill is a hill in Warwickshire, England, which at 261 m is the highest in the county. It is situated between the villages of Ebrington, Mickleton and Ilmington on the Warwickshire and Gloucestershire border in the Cotswolds.

    2.5 km · hill in Warwickshire, England · Wikipedia

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Go there

Getting to Ilmington

Airports
Birmingham (BHX), 41 km · East Midlands (EMA), 86 km · London Luton (LTN), 94 km
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Ilmington
    46 km · quickest by road, 1h 28m · £7–9
  • London → Ilmington
    126 km · quickest by road, 2h 46m · £14–19
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Ilmington
    103 km · quickest by road, 2h 19m · £11–15
  • From anywhere
    The planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Ilmington

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inPrivate chartered coach trips are run by a lot of companies from most major cities, including London, Birmingham, and other nearby tourist hotspots such as Stratford-upon-Avon.
  • Get inYou can hitchhike from the B4632 or A44 roads.

From Wikivoyage: Broadway (England), 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

    158 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    229 km
  3. 03
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    449 km
  4. 04
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    468 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    485 km

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

Around it

Next door to Ilmington

Ilmington is 37 km from Coventry, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.