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Lactodurum

Lactodorum was a town in the Roman province of Britannia.

Lactodurum
Lactodurum · Cj1340 at English Wikipedia
The place

Lactodorum was a town in the Roman province of Britannia. Today it is known as Towcester, located in the English county of Northamptonshire.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Lactodurum

8 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
    Easton Neston

    Easton Neston is a large grade I listed country house in the parish of Easton Neston near Towcester in Northamptonshire, England. It was built by William Fermor, 1st Baron Leominster, in the Baroque style to the design of the architect Nicholas Hawksmoor.

    1.1 km · country house near Towcester, Northamptonshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Bury Mount

    Bury Mount Motte is the remains of an earthwork motte and bailey fortification or ancient castle in Towcester in Northamptonshire, and has been designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument. The Motte probably dates back to the 11th century when it was a Norman fortification, but over time it has been subject to neglect.

    300 m · castle in the UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Blisworth Tunnel

    Blisworth Tunnel is a canal tunnel on the Grand Union Canal in Northamptonshire, England, between the villages of Stoke Bruerne at the southern end and Blisworth at the northern end.

    5 km · tunnel on the Grand Union Canal in Northamptonshire, England · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Tiffield St. John the Baptist Church

    Tiffield St. John the Baptist Church is a church in the small village of Tiffield in Northamptonshire, England.

    3.1 km · church in Tiffield, Northamptonshire, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Church of St Botolph

    The Church of St Botolph, Slapton, also referred to as Slapton, St Botolph, is the ancient parish church of the village of Slapton near Towcester in West Northamptonshire, United Kingdom. Constructed sometime around the late 12th and early 13th centuries the church is notable for its almost complete surviving set of late medieval wall paintings, widely considered the finest in Northamptonshire.

    5.5 km · church in Slapton, Northamptonshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Greens Norton Pocket Park

    Greens Norton Pocket Park is a 2-hectare Local Nature Reserve in Greens Norton in Northamptonshire. It is owned and managed by Green Norton Parish Council.

    2.9 km · park in United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Canal Museum, Stoke Bruerne

    The Canal Museum, formerly known as the National Waterways Museum at Stoke Bruerne and The Canal Museum at Stoke Bruerne, is a canal museum located next to the Grand Union Canal just south of the Blisworth Tunnel, near the village of Stoke Bruerne in Northamptonshire. It is about 10 miles north of Milton Keynes and 7 miles south of Northampton near junction 15 of the M1 motorway.

    5.2 km · museum in Northamptonshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Tiffield Pocket Park

    Tiffield Pocket Park is a 2.6 hectare Local Nature Reserve north of Tiffield in West Northamptonshire. It is leased by a private owner to Tiffield Parish Council and managed by The Tiffield Pocketeers.

    3.7 km · park in United Kingdom · 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.

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Getting to Lactodurum

Airports
London Luton (LTN), 51 km · Birmingham (BHX), 63 km · East Midlands (EMA), 81 km
  • Luton, Luton → Lactodurum
    48 km · quickest by road, 1h 6m · £5–7
  • London → Lactodurum
    91 km · quickest by road, 2h 18m · £10–13
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Lactodurum
    73 km · quickest by road, 1h 40m · £9–12
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Lactodurum

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 Lactodurum. 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

    162 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    275 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    422 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    470 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    505 km

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

Around it

Next door to Lactodurum

Lactodurum is 47 km from Coventry, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Silverstonevillage and civil parish in Northamptonshire, England, UK5.1 km
  • Stoke Bruernevillage and civil parish in Northamptonshire, England, UK5.2 km
  • Abthorpevillage and civil parish in Northamptonshire, England, UK4.7 km
  • Greens Nortonvillage and civil parish in Northamptonshire, United Kingdom2.7 km
  • Whittleburyvillage and civil parish in Northamptonshire, United Kingdom5.1 km
  • Shutlangervillage and civil parish in Northamptonshire, United Kingdom3.3 km