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Kempsford

Kempsford is a village and civil parish in Gloucestershire, England, about 2.5 miles (4 km) south of Fairford.

Kempsford
Kempsford · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Kempsford is a village and civil parish in Gloucestershire, England, about 2.5 miles (4 km) south of Fairford. RAF Fairford is immediately north of the village. The parish, which includes the hamlets of Whelford, Horcott, and Dunfield, had a population around 1,120 at the 2011 census.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Kempsford

3 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
    Hannington Hall

    Hannington Hall is a Grade II* listed country house in the village of Hannington, Wiltshire, England. The house was built in 1653 by the Freke family, who had bought the estate in 1605, and possibly incorporates parts of a previous parsonage.

    4 km · country house in Wiltshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Church of St Mary the Virgin

    The Anglican Church of St Mary the Virgin at Kempsford in the Cotswold District of Gloucestershire, England, was built in the 12th century. It is a grade I listed building.

    300 m · Grade I listed church, Cotswold, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Hannington Bridge

    Hannington Bridge is a road bridge across the River Thames in England. It carries a minor road between Kempsford in Gloucestershire and Hannington Wick in Wiltshire.

    1.6 km · bridge in Gloucestershire/Wiltshire, UK · Wikipedia

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Getting to Kempsford

Airports
Bristol (BRS), 73 km · Birmingham (BHX), 87 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 93 km
  • London → Kempsford
    115 km · quickest by road, 2h 49m · £13–17
  • Bristol → Kempsford
    62 km · quickest by road, 1h 34m · £8–11
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Kempsford
    91 km · quickest by road, 2h 23m · £11–15
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Kempsford

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

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    114 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    208 km
  3. 03
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    488 km
  4. 04
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    491 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    524 km

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

Around it

Next door to Kempsford

  • Marston Meyseyvillage and civil parish in Wiltshire, England3.3 km
  • Hanningtonvillage and civil parish in Wiltshire, England3.9 km
  • Castle Eatonvillage in Wiltshire, England, UK2.3 km
  • Whelfordvillage in Kempsford, Cotswold, Gloucestershire, England2.4 km