Mentmore

Worth seeing in and around Mentmore

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
   Mentmore Towers

   Mentmore Towers, historically known simply as "Mentmore", is a 19th-century English country house built between 1852 and 1854 for the Rothschild family in the village of Mentmore in Buckinghamshire. Sir Joseph Paxton and his son-in-law, George Henry Stokes, designed the building in the 19th-century revival of late 16th and early 17th-century Elizabethan and Jacobean styles called Jacobethan.

   500 m · country house in Mentmore, Buckinghamshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
2. 02
   Grand Junction Canal

   The Grand Junction Canal is a canal in England from Braunston in Northamptonshire to the River Thames at Brentford, with a number of branches. The mainline was built between 1793 and 1805, to improve the route from the Midlands to London, by-passing the upper reaches of the River Thames near Oxford, thus shortening the journey.

   2.4 km · English canal · Wikipedia
3. 03
   All Saints' Church, Wing

   All Saints' Church in Wing, Buckinghamshire, is a Grade I listed parish church. Its masonry was largely built in the 8th to 11th centuries during the Anglo-Saxon period, making it one of the oldest surviving churches in England.

   3.8 km · church in Wing, Buckinghamshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
4. 04
   Ascott House

   Ascott House, sometimes referred to as simply Ascott, is a Grade II* listed building in the hamlet of Ascott near Wing in Buckinghamshire, England. It is set in a 32-acre / 13 hectare estate.

   3.2 km · historic house and National Trust site in Buckinghamshire, England, UK · Wikipedia

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Getting to Mentmore

Airports

London Luton (LTN), 22 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 47 km · London Stansted (STN), 63 km

Stations

Cheddington railway station, 2 km · Marston Gate railway station, 3.8 km

• London → Mentmore

  56 km · quickest by road, 1h 52m · £6–8
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• London, Essex → Mentmore

  56 km · quickest by road, 1h 52m · £6–8
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• Birmingham, West Midlands → Mentmore

  75 km · quickest by road, 1h 43m · £9–12
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No local-transport research exists yet for Mentmore

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

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