Long Whatton
Long Whatton is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Long Whatton and Diseworth, in the North West Leicestershire district, in the English county of Leicestershire.
Long Whatton is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Long Whatton and Diseworth, in the North West Leicestershire district, in the English county of Leicestershire. It is south of East Midlands Airport, off Junctions 23 and 23A of the M1 motorway, and has easy access to Loughborough via the A6 and to Shepshed, Ashby-de-la-Zouch and Kegworth.
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Worth seeing in and around Long Whatton
9 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.
- 01Garendon Abbey
Garendon Abbey was a Cistercian abbey located between Shepshed and Loughborough, in Leicestershire, United Kingdom.
4 km · abbey in Leicestershire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 02All Saints Church, Long Whatton
All Saints Church is a parish church located in the village of Long Whatton, Leicestershire, England. Built in the 13th century, the church was renovated between the 14th and 16th centuries.
100 m · church in Long Whatton and Diseworth, North West Leicestershire, England,UK · Wikipedia - 03Church of St Andrew
St Andrew's Church is a Grade II* listed Church of England church in Kegworth, Leicestershire.
3.4 km · church in North West Leicestershire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 04St Anne's Church, Sutton Bonington
St. Anne's Church is a parish church in the Church of England in Sutton Bonington, Nottinghamshire.
3.1 km · church in Sutton Bonington, Rushcliffe, Nottinghamshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 05St. Michael's Church, Sutton Bonington
St. Michael's Church is a parish church in the Church of England in Sutton Bonington, Nottinghamshire.
3.1 km · church in Sutton Bonington, Nottinghamshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 06Oakley Wood
Oakley Wood is a 48.1-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest west of Hathern in Leicestershire. This site provides the only example in the county of the transition from oak woodland on free draining acid soil to the ash and hazel typical of the heavy clays of eastern central England.
1.9 km · Site of Special Scientific Interest west of Hathern in Leicestershire, England · Wikipedia - 07St Botolph's Church, Shepshed
St Botolph's Church, Shepshed is the Church of England Parish Church in Shepshed, Leicestershire.
3.7 km · Grade I listed church in Shepshed, Charnwood, Leicestershire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 08St Michael and All Angels' Church, Diseworth
St Michael and All Angels' Church, Diseworth is a Grade II* listed Church of England church in Kegworth, Leicestershire.
3 km · church in Diseworth, Leicestershire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 09St. James, Normanton
The Church of St. James is a parish church in the village of Normanton on Soar, Nottinghamshire.
3.8 km · Grade I listed church in Normanton on Soar, Nottinghamshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Long Whatton
- Airports
- East Midlands (EMA), 4 km · Birmingham (BHX), 50 km · Manchester (MAN), 90 km
- Stations
- East Midlands Airport, 3.9 km · East Midlands Gateway, 3.3 km
- Birmingham, West Midlands → Long Whatton55 km · quickest by road, 1h 11m · £6–8
- Manchester, Greater Manchester → Long Whatton98 km · quickest by road, 2h 45m · £13–17
- London → Long Whatton165 km · quickest by road, 3h 5m · £17–23
- 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 Long Whatton
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 Long Whatton. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inThe airport mainly supports low-cost airlines such as Jet2.com, Ryanair and tour operators like Thomson Airways which serve a range of domestic and European short-haul destinations.
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Next door to Long Whatton
Long Whatton is 19 km from Nottingham, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Shepshedtown in Leicestershire, England, UK3.9 km
- Normanton on Soarvillage in Nottinghamshire, England, UK3.5 km
- Kegworthvillage in Kegworth parish, United Kingdom3.5 km
- Hathernvillage and civil parish in Leicestershire, UK2.4 km
- Sutton Boningtonvillage and civil parish in Nottinghamshire, England, UK2.9 km
- Diseworthvillage in Leicestershire, England, UK3.3 km