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Mears Ashby

Mears Ashby is a village in the county of Northamptonshire, England.

The place

Mears Ashby is a village in the county of Northamptonshire, England. It lies between the county town of Northampton and Wellingborough and was in the West ward of borough council of Wellingborough area which also included Sywell prior to local government reform in 2021. At the time of the 2011 census, it had a population of 473.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Mears Ashby

2 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
    All Saints' Church, Earls Barton

    All Saints' Church is a noted Anglo-Saxon Church of England parish church in Earls Barton, Northamptonshire. It is estimated that the building dates from the later tenth century, shortly after Danish raids on England.

    3.3 km · church in Earls Barton, Northamptonshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Sywell Reservoir

    Sywell Country Park exists on the site of a former drinking water reservoir near the village of Sywell in East Northamptonshire, England. The reservoir was built at the turn of the 20th century to supply water to the Higham Ferrers and Rushden areas.

    1.5 km · reservoir in Northamptonshire, England, UK · Wikipedia

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Getting to Mears Ashby

Airports
London Luton (LTN), 54 km · Birmingham (BHX), 69 km · East Midlands (EMA), 71 km
Stations
Sywell Aerodrome, 1.9 km · Sywell Aviation Museum, 1.4 km
  • Luton, Luton → Mears Ashby
    52 km · quickest by road, 1h 17m · £6–8
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Mears Ashby
    79 km · quickest by road, 1h 43m · £8–11
  • London → Mears Ashby
    98 km · quickest by road, 2h 28m · £11–14
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Mears Ashby

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 Mears Ashby. 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

    182 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    296 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    402 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    463 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    499 km

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

Around it

Next door to Mears Ashby

Mears Ashby is 45 km from Leicester, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Wilbyvillage and civil parish in Northamptonshire, England, UK2.7 km
  • Sywellvillage in Northamptonshire, England1.4 km
  • Earls Bartonvillage in Northamptonshire, England, UK3.8 km
  • Hardwickvillage and civil parish in Northamptonshire, UK3.2 km
  • Ectonvillage and civil parish in Northamptonshire, United Kingdom3.3 km
  • Overstonevillage and civil parish in Daventry, Northamptonshire, England3.4 km