Sambourne
Sambourne, formerly spelled Sambourn, is a village and civil parish 1.5 miles (2.4 km) north-west of Coughton, 4.5 miles (7.2 km) south of Redditch, 12 miles (19 km) north-west of Stratford-upon-Avon and 20 miles (32 km) west of Warwick in the county of Warwickshire, England.
Sambourne, formerly spelled Sambourn, is a village and civil parish 1.5 miles (2.4 km) north-west of Coughton, 4.5 miles (7.2 km) south of Redditch, 12 miles (19 km) north-west of Stratford-upon-Avon and 20 miles (32 km) west of Warwick in the county of Warwickshire, England. It is situated on sloping ground rising westwards to about 500 feet near the ancient Ridge Way, and forms part of the county boundary with Worcestershire. The village itself is centred round a small triangular green at the junction of four roads and contains several timber-framed buildings of 17th century date. By a designation of 22 July 1991 much of the central area became a conservation area.
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Worth seeing in and around Sambourne
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.
- 01Coughton Court
Coughton Court is an English Tudor country house, situated on the main road between Studley and Alcester in Warwickshire. It is a Grade I listed building.
2.9 km · Grade I listed historic house museum in Stratford-on-Avon, United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 02St Leonard's Church, Spernall
St Leonard's Church is a redundant church in Spernall, Warwickshire, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building, and is under the care of the Friends of Friendless Churches.
2.7 km · church in Stratford-on-Avon, UK · Wikipedia - 03Roman Catholic Church of Saint Peter Paul and Elizabeth
St Peter and St Paul and St Elizabeth Catholic Church is a Catholic church built between 1851 and 1853 by the Throckmorton family in the grounds of their family home, Coughton Court. The church was commissioned by Sir Robert Throckmorton, 8th Baronet, in the years after the Catholic Emancipation Acts which would re-allow the profession of the Catholic faith officially for the first time since the Tudor period.
3.1 km · church in Stratford-on-Avon, United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 04Studley Castle
Studley Castle is a 19th-century country house at Studley, Warwickshire, England. The Grade II* listed building is now occupied as a Warner Leisure Hotel but was once owned by the Lyttelton family before being bequeathed by Philip Lyttleton to his niece Dorothy, who married Francis Holyoake.
3.4 km · country house in Warwickshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Sambourne
- Airports
- Birmingham (BHX), 24 km · East Midlands (EMA), 75 km · Bristol (BRS), 112 km
- Nottingham, Leicestershire → Sambourne93 km · quickest by road, 1h 59m · £10–13
- London → Sambourne148 km · quickest by road, 3h 3m · £16–22
- Bristol → Sambourne101 km · quickest by road, 2h 12m · £11–14
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No local-transport research exists yet for Sambourne
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 Sambourne. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
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Next door to Sambourne
Sambourne is 25 km from Birmingham, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Studleyvillage and civil parish in the Stratford-on-Avon district of Warwickshire, England2 km
- Spernallvillage in Warwickshire, England, UK2.7 km
- Cookhillvillage in Worcestershire, England, UK3.5 km
- Coughtonvillage and civil parish in Warwickshire, United Kingdom2.7 km
- Astwood Bankvillage in Worcestershire, United Kingdom1.6 km
- Ham Greenhamlet in Worcestershire, England, UK3.6 km