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Pitsford

Pitsford is a village and civil parish in the West Northamptonshire unitary authority area of Northamptonshire, England.

Pitsford
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The place

Pitsford is a village and civil parish in the West Northamptonshire unitary authority area of Northamptonshire, England. The village is around 5 miles (8 km) north of Northampton. According to 2001 census, the parish's population was 636 people, increasing to 671 at the 2011 census.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Pitsford

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
    All Saints' Church, Brixworth

    All Saints' Church, Brixworth, now the parish church of Brixworth, Northamptonshire, England, is a leading example of early Anglo-Saxon architecture. It is the largest English church that remains substantially as it was in the Anglo-Saxon era.

    3.2 km · historic church in Brixworth, Daventry, Northamptonshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Church of St Mary and All Saints

    St Mary & All Saints' Church is an Anglican Church and the parish church of Holcot. It is a Grade I listed building and stands on the west side of Main Street.

    4 km · church in Holcot, Northamptonshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    St John the Baptist's Church, Boughton

    St John the Baptist's Church is an Anglican Church and the parish church of Boughton. It is a Grade II listed building and stands on the east side of Church Street.

    2.3 km · church building in Boughton, Northamptonshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Northampton and Lamport Railway

    The Northampton and Lamport Railway is a standard gauge heritage railway in Northamptonshire, England. It is based at Pitsford and Brampton station, near the villages of Pitsford and Chapel Brampton, roughly 5 miles north of Northampton.

    2.5 km · heritage railway in the UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Brixworth Abbey

    Brixworth Abbey was a monastic house in Northamptonshire, England. The church, thought to have been of basilican plan, was devastated during the Danish invasion of 876, and converted into All Saints' Church in the tenth century, when the original western entrance was formed into a tower.

    3.2 km · monastery in Northamptonshire, England · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Crowfields Common

    Crowfields Common is an 8.7 hectare Local Nature Reserve in Moulton in Northamptonshire. It is owned and managed by Moulton Parish Council.

    3.8 km · park in United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Moulton College

    Moulton College is a further education college based in Moulton, Northamptonshire, England. Although initially established as the Northamptonshire Institute of Agriculture in 1921, it now has expanded its teaching curriculum to cover a wide range of land-based subjects, sports, and construction.

    3 km · further education college in Moulton, Northamptonshire, England · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Pitsford Water

    Pitsford Water or Pitsford Reservoir is a 413 hectare reservoir and biological Site of Special Scientific Interest east of Brixworth in Northamptonshire. It is owned by Anglian Water, which manages it as a water park for walking, cycling, fishing, sailing and birdwatching.

    2.2 km · reservoir and nature reserve in Northamptonshire, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    All Saints' Church, Pitsford

    All Saints' Church is an Anglican Church and the parish church of Pitsford, in the Diocese of Peterborough. It is a Grade II* listed building and stands on the west side of Church Lane on the northern edge of the village.

    200 m · church in Pitsford, Northamptonshire, England, UK · Wikipedia

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Go there

Getting to Pitsford

Airports
London Luton (LTN), 60 km · Birmingham (BHX), 60 km · East Midlands (EMA), 65 km
Stations
Pitsford and Brampton railway station, 2.6 km
  • Luton, Luton → Pitsford
    57 km · quickest by road, 1h 22m · £6–8
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Pitsford
    71 km · quickest by road, 1h 32m · £8–10
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Pitsford
    74 km · quickest by road, 1h 49m · £9–12
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Pitsford

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 Pitsford. 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

    289 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    409 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    457 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    493 km

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Around it

Next door to Pitsford

Pitsford is 40 km from Leicester, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.