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Lower Dean

Lower Dean is a village located in the Borough of Bedford in Bedfordshire, England.

Lower Dean
Lower Dean · Tadeusz Hare
The place

Lower Dean is a village located in the Borough of Bedford in Bedfordshire, England. Dean is a modernized version of the Anglo-Saxon word "denu," which means "valley."

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Lower Dean

4 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
    Church of All Saints, Upper Dean

    The Church of All Saints is a Grade I listed church in Upper Dean, Bedfordshire, England. It became a listed building on 13 July 1964.

    1.5 km · Grade I listed church in Dean and Shelton, Bedford, Bedfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Church of St Mary the Virgin, Shelton, North Bedfordshire

    Church of St Mary the Virgin is a Grade I listed church in Shelton, Bedfordshire, England.

    2.1 km · Grade I listed church in Dean and Shelton, Bedford, Bedfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Church of St Nicholas, Swineshead

    Church of St Nicholas is a Grade I listed church in Swineshead, Bedfordshire, England. It became a listed building on 13 July 1964.

    3.1 km · Grade I listed church in Swineshead, Bedford, Bedfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Swineshead Wood

    Swineshead Wood is a 21.6-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Swineshead in Bedfordshire, England.

    2.2 km · Site of Special Scientific Interest near Swineshead, Bedfordshire · 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.

Go there

Getting to Lower Dean

Airports
London Luton (LTN), 49 km · London Stansted (STN), 67 km · East Midlands (EMA), 83 km
Stations
Kimbolton railway station, 3.9 km
  • Luton, Luton → Lower Dean
    48 km · quickest by road, 1h 28m · £5–7
  • London, Essex → Lower Dean
    92 km · quickest by road, 2h 41m · £11–14
  • London → Lower Dean
    92 km · quickest by road, 2h 41m · £11–14
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Lower Dean

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 Lower Dean. 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

    190 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    316 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    381 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    475 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    510 km

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

Around it

Next door to Lower Dean

Lower Dean is 59 km from Leicester, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Swinesheadvillage and civil parish in Bedfordshire, England, UK3.1 km
  • Covingtonvillage in Cambridgeshire, England, UK2.3 km
  • Tilbrookvillage and civil parish in Cambridgeshire, UK2.5 km
  • Hargravevillage and civil parish situated in rural Northamptonshire, England2.5 km
  • Sheltonvillage located in the Borough of Bedford in Bedfordshire, England2.1 km
  • Upper Deanvillage in Bedfordshire, England, UK1.5 km