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Northill

Northill is a village and civil parish in the Central Bedfordshire district of the county of Bedfordshire, England about 6.5 miles (10 km) southeast of the county town of Bedford.

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The place

Northill is a village and civil parish in the Central Bedfordshire district of the county of Bedfordshire, England about 6.5 miles (10 km) southeast of the county town of Bedford.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Northill

9 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
    Shuttleworth Collection

    The Shuttleworth Collection is a working aviation, automotive and agricultural collection located at Old Warden Aerodrome in Bedfordshire, England.

    1.8 km · aviation museum in Old Warden, Bedfordshire · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Wardon Abbey

    Wardon or Warden Abbey, Bedfordshire, was one of the senior Cistercian houses of England, founded about 1135 from Rievaulx Abbey. It is a Grade I listed building.

    4 km · Grade I listed building in Old Warden, Bedfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Old Warden Castle

    Old Warden Castle, also known as Quince Hill, is located in the village of Old Warden, in the county of Bedfordshire, England. It is uncertain whether it is a motte castle or a ringwork.

    2.4 km · castle in Old Warden, Central Bedfordshire, Bedfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Church of St Leonard, Old Warden

    The Abbey Church of St Leonard of Old Warden is a Grade I listed church in Old Warden, Bedfordshire, England. It became a listed building on 31 October 1966.

    2.6 km · church in Old Warden, Bedfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Church of St Mary the Virgin, Northill

    Church of St Mary the Virgin is a Grade I listed church in Northill, Bedfordshire, England. It has been listed Grade I on the National Heritage List for England since October 1966.

    100 m · church in Northill, Bedfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Shuttleworth College, Bedfordshire

    Shuttleworth College is a specialist land-based further education college in Old Warden, Bedfordshire, United Kingdom. Shuttleworth College is a member of the Bedford College Group, and the Landex organisation.

    2.3 km · Land-based further education college in Old Warden, Bedfordshire · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Ickwell Bury

    Ickwell Bury, at the heart of the former manor of Ickwell, Bedfordshire, was first built by John Harvey in 1683 near the site of an older manor house. The Harvey family continued to own the house until 1925, although from 1900 it had housed Horton Preparatory School.

    1.2 km · country house in Bedfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Moggerhanger House

    Moggerhanger House is a Grade I-listed country house in Moggerhanger, Bedfordshire, England, designed by the eminent architect John Soane. The house is owned by a Christian charity, Harvest Vision, and the Moggerhanger House Preservation Trust, and has recently undergone a £7m refurbishment project with help from organisations such as the Heritage Lottery Fund, English Heritage, World Monuments Fund and the East of England Development Agency.

    2.5 km · Grade I listed historic house museum in Central Bedfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    The Mansion House

    The Mansion House, Old Warden Park is a 19th-century country house in Old Warden, Bedfordshire, England. Designed by Henry Clutton for Joseph Shuttleworth, it is a Grade II* listed building.

    2.4 km · country house in 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 Northill

Airports
London Luton (LTN), 26 km · London Stansted (STN), 45 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 71 km
Stations
Sandy railway station, 3.6 km · Old Warden Aerodrome, 2.1 km
  • London, Essex → Northill
    68 km · quickest by road, 1h 56m · £7–10
  • London → Northill
    68 km · quickest by road, 1h 56m · £7–10
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Northill
    115 km · quickest by road, 2h 31m · £13–17
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Northill

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 Northill. 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

    172 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    317 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    380 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    498 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    534 km

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

Around it

Next door to Northill

  • Sandytown and civil parish in Bedfordshire, England, UK3.3 km
  • Moggerhangervillage and civil parish in Bedfordshire, UK2.8 km
  • Old Wardenvillage and civil parish in Bedfordshire, UK3.3 km
  • Beestonvillage in Bedfordshire, United Kingdom2.4 km
  • Upper Caldecotevillage in Bedfordshire, England, UK2 km
  • Ickwellvillage in Bedfordshire, England, UK1 km