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Quainton

Quainton is a village and civil parish in Buckinghamshire, England, 7 miles (11 km) north-west of Aylesbury.

Quainton
Quainton · Charles J. Sharp
The place

Quainton is a village and civil parish in Buckinghamshire, England, 7 miles (11 km) north-west of Aylesbury. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 Census was 1,295. The village has two churches, a school and one public house. The location means that while many commute to London, others are employed in neighbouring towns and villages.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Quainton

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
    Waddesdon Manor

    Grade I listed country house in Buckinghamshire, England, UK

    3.8 km · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Buckinghamshire Railway Centre

    Operational railway museum

    1.3 km · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    St Michael and All Angels' Church, Waddesdon

    Church in Waddesdon, Aylesbury Vale, Buckinghamshire, England, UK

    3.1 km · 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.

Go there

Getting to Quainton

Airports
London Luton (LTN), 38 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 55 km · London Stansted (STN), 79 km
  • London → Quainton
    68 km · quickest by road, 2h 4m · £7–10
  • London, Essex → Quainton
    68 km · quickest by road, 2h 4m · £7–10
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Quainton
    95 km · quickest by road, 2h 24m · £12–16
  • From anywhere
    The planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Quainton

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inAn off-road cycleway follows the route of the A413 and runs to Buckingham.

From Wikivoyage: Winslow (England), 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

    135 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    271 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    428 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    496 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    532 km

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

Around it

Next door to Quainton

Quainton is 47 km from Reading, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

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  • Pitchcottvillage in Buckinghamshire, England, UK3 km
  • Hogshawvillage and civil parish in Buckinghamshire, England, UK2.6 km
  • Shipton Leehamlet in Buckinghamshire, England, UK1.9 km
  • Wormstonehamlet in Buckinghamshire, England, UK3.7 km