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Longborough

Longborough is a village and civil parish 2.5 miles (4.0 km) north of the market town of Stow on the Wold, Gloucestershire.

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The place

Longborough is a village and civil parish 2.5 miles (4.0 km) north of the market town of Stow on the Wold, Gloucestershire. The parish population taken at the 2011 census was 471.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Longborough

6 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
    Sezincote House

    Sezincote House is the centre of a country estate in the civil parish of Sezincote, in the county of Gloucestershire, England. The house was designed by Samuel Pepys Cockerell, built in 1805, and is a notable example of Neo-Mughal architecture, a 19th-century reinterpretation of 16th and 17th-century architecture from the Mughal Empire.

    3.3 km · Grade I listed country house in Gloucestershire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    St Edward's Church

    St Edward's Church is a medieval-built Church of England parish church, serving Stow-on-the-Wold, Gloucestershire. A tourist attraction, it is among 98 Grade I listed buildings in Cotswold, a mainly rural district having about one third of the total of Grade I listed buildings in Gloucestershire.

    2.3 km · church in Stow-on-the-Wold, Cotswold, Gloucestershire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    St James' Church, Longborough

    St James' Church is the Church of England parish church of Longborough, Gloucestershire, England. It is in the deanery of Stow, the archdeaconry of Cheltenham and the diocese of Gloucester.

    1.8 km · church in Longborough, Gloucestershire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Church of St Mary, Swell

    The Church of St Mary is an Anglican church in Upper Swell in the Cotswold District of Gloucestershire, England. It was built in the 12th century and is a Grade I listed building.

    1.4 km · church in Swell Cotswold District Gloucestershire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Lower Swell War Memorial

    Lower Swell War Memorial is a First World War memorial in the centre of the village of Lower Swell in Gloucestershire in south-western England. The memorial, designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens, was unveiled in 1921 and is today a grade II listed building.

    2.7 km · war memorial in Swell, Gloucestershire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Abbotswood

    Abbotswood is a country house and estate near Lower Swell in Gloucestershire, England. It is a grade II listed building and estate, of medieval origins and with remodelling and garden work to the designs of Sir Edwin Lutyens from 1901 onwards.

    1.7 km · country house in Swell, Cotswold, Gloucestershire, England, UK · 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 Longborough

Airports
Birmingham (BHX), 56 km · Bristol (BRS), 93 km · London Luton (LTN), 94 km
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Longborough
    59 km · quickest by road, 1h 48m · £6–9
  • London → Longborough
    33 km · quickest by road, 1h 25m · £4–5
  • Bristol → Longborough
    82 km · quickest by road, 1h 59m · £9–12
  • 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 Longborough

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 Longborough. 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

    143 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    220 km
  3. 03
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    461 km
  4. 04
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    476 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    497 km

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

Around it

Next door to Longborough

Longborough is 53 km from Coventry, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Stow-on-the-Woldtown in Gloucestershire, England, UK2.7 km
  • Bourton-on-the-Hillvillage and civil parish in Gloucestershire, England3.5 km
  • Maugersburyvillage in Gloucestershire, England, UK3.2 km
  • Donningtonvillage and civil parish in Gloucestershire, England, UK1.1 km
  • Condicotevillage and civil parish in Gloucestershire, United Kingdom3.2 km
  • Broadwellvillage and civil parish in Cotswold, Gloucestershire, England, UK2.1 km