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Lower Stondon

Lower Stondon is a small village in the Central Bedfordshire district of Bedfordshire, England.

Lower Stondon
Lower Stondon · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Lower Stondon is a small village in the Central Bedfordshire district of Bedfordshire, England. It is located close to the border with Hertfordshire, around 2.5 miles (4 km) south-west of Henlow. It is part of the larger Stondon civil parish, which at the 2001 Census had a population of approximately 2,000 increasing to approximately 2,300 at the 2011 Census.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Lower Stondon

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
    Church of St Mary the Virgin, Henlow

    Church of St Mary the Virgin is a Grade I listed church in Henlow, Bedfordshire, England. It became a listed building on 31 October 1966.

    4 km · church in Henlow, Bedfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Parish Church of All Saints, Campton

    The Church of All Saints is the Anglican parish church in the village of Campton, Shefford, Bedfordshire, England. Its official title is Campton and Chicksands Parish and encompasses the villages of Campton and Chicksands and the nearby military base, despite the base having its own church dedicated to Saint Gilbert of Sempringham.

    3.6 km · church in Bedfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Catholic Church of St Francis of Assisi

    St Francis of Assisi Church is a Catholic parish church in Shefford, Bedfordshire. The church was built from 1882 to 1884 and designed by Samuel Joseph Nicholl in the Gothic Revival style, and includes the remains of a chapel built in 1791.

    3.7 km · Catholic church building in Shefford, Central Bedfordshire, 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 Lower Stondon

Airports
London Luton (LTN), 15 km · London Stansted (STN), 40 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 60 km
  • London, Essex → Lower Stondon
    56 km · quickest by road, 1h 51m · £6–8
  • London → Lower Stondon
    56 km · quickest by road, 1h 51m · £6–8
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Lower Stondon
    120 km · quickest by road, 2h 35m · £13–17
  • 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 Lower Stondon

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get aroundA cycle route runs north–south through the town, mostly off-road, following the railway line.

From Wikivoyage: Biggleswade, 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

    162 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    314 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    384 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    508 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    543 km

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

Around it

Next door to Lower Stondon

Lower Stondon is 50 km from Brent, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Sheffordtown and civil parish in Central Bedfordshire, UK3.6 km
  • Arleseyvillage-town hybrid and civil parish in Bedfordshire, England, UK3.7 km
  • Meppershallvillage and civil parish in Bedfordshire, UK1.9 km
  • Shillingtonvillage and civil parish in Bedfordshire, England, UK3.3 km
  • Henlowvillage and civil parish in Bedfordshire, UK3.7 km
  • Gravenhurstcivil parish in Central Bedfordshire, Bedfordshire, England, UK3.3 km