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Scarrington

Scarrington is an English civil parish and small village in the Rushcliffe borough of Nottinghamshire, adjacent to Bingham, Car Colston, Hawksworth, Orston and Aslockton.

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The place

Scarrington is an English civil parish and small village in the Rushcliffe borough of Nottinghamshire, adjacent to Bingham, Car Colston, Hawksworth, Orston and Aslockton. Its 968 acres had a population in the 2011 census of 183, falling to 167 at the 2021 census. It lies at Ordnance Survey grid reference SK7341 in the undulating farmland of the Vale of Belvoir, some 2 miles (3.2 km) from the town of Bingham and from a stretch of the Roman Fosse Way (A46) between Newark and Leicester. It is skirted by the A52 road between Nottingham and Grantham.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Scarrington

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
    Aslockton Castle

    Aslockton Castle is a ruined fortification, a motte-and-bailey castle, in the village of Aslockton, Nottinghamshire. The original name of the settlement was Aslachetone, which suggests a possible Norse origin; it was mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086 where it was described as a large settlement.

    1.6 km · motte-and-bailey castle in Aslockton, Nottinghamshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    St Mary's Church, Car Colston

    St Mary's Church, Car Colston is a Grade I listed parish church in the Church of England in Car Colston.

    2.1 km · Grade I listed church in Car Colston, Rushcliffe, Nottinghamshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    St Wilfrid's Church, Screveton

    St Wilfrid's Church, Screveton is a Grade I listed parish church in the Church of England in Screveton.

    2 km · Grade I listed church in Screveton, Rushcliffe, Nottinghamshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Church of St. Mary and All Saints, Hawksworth

    The Church of St Mary and All Saints, Hawksworth, is the Church of England parish church in Hawksworth, Nottinghamshire. It is Grade II* listed by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport as a particularly significant building of more than local interest.

    2.7 km · church in Hawksworth, Rushcliffe, Nottinghamshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    St. Helena's Church, Thoroton

    St Helena's Church, Thoroton is the Church of England parish church of Thoroton, Nottinghamshire, England. The building is Grade I listed by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport as of outstanding architectural interest.

    3.1 km · Grade I listed church in Thoroton, Rushcliffe, Nottinghamshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    St. Thomas' Church, Aslockton

    St. Thomas' Church, Aslockton is a late 19th-century Church of England parish church in the village of Aslockton, Nottinghamshire.

    1.5 km · grade II listed church in Aslockton, Rushcliffe, Nottinghamshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Church of St. John of Beverley, Scarrington

    The Church of St John of Beverley is a 13th-century parish church of the Church of England, in the village of Scarrington, Nottinghamshire. It has been Grade I listed by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport.

    100 m · grade II listed church in Scarrington, Rushcliffe, Nottinghamshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Church of St. John of Beverley, Whatton

    The Church of St John of Beverley, Whatton is a parish church in the Church of England in Whatton-in-the-Vale, Nottinghamshire, dedicated to St John of Beverley. The church is Grade II* listed by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport.

    2.1 km · church in Whatton-in-the-Vale, Rushcliffe, Nottinghamshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Church of St. Mary and All Saints, Bingham

    The Church of St. Mary and All Saints, Bingham, is the parish church of Bingham in the Rushcliffe borough of Nottinghamshire, England.

    3.2 km · Grade I listed church in Bingham, Nottinghamshire, 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.

Go there

Getting to Scarrington

Airports
East Midlands (EMA), 32 km · Birmingham (BHX), 80 km · Manchester (MAN), 101 km
Stations
Elton and Orston railway station, 3.8 km · Aslockton railway station, 1.7 km · Bingham railway station, 3.2 km
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Scarrington
    86 km · quickest by road, 1h 57m · £9–12
  • Manchester, Greater Manchester → Scarrington
    106 km · quickest by road, 2h 48m · £14–18
  • Leeds, West Yorkshire → Scarrington
    102 km · quickest by road, 2h 14m · £11–15
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Scarrington

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inMotorists have two choices to enter England from outside Great Britain, by various car ferry routes, or the Channel Tunnel.
  • Get inThere are only limited car ferry services connecting Ireland directly with England.
  • Get inAlternatively it is possible to take a ferry from Ireland to Wales or Scotland and then continue the journey by road to England.
  • Go nextWales — to the west of England, with its own language and culture Scotland — pristine nature and highlands to the north Isle of Man — picturesque island nation perfect for outdoor pursuits Ireland and Northern Ireland — fascinating history and cultures a short ferry ride away France, Belgium, and the Netherlands — all accessible by direct high-speed rail from London

From Wikivoyage: 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

    255 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    325 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    394 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    400 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    434 km

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

Around it

Next door to Scarrington

Scarrington is 16 km from Nottingham, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Binghamtown in Nottinghamshire, England, UK3.6 km
  • Aslocktonvillage in Nottinghamshire, England, UK1.6 km
  • Hawksworthvillage in the Rushcliffe borough of Nottinghamshire, England2.7 km
  • Screvetonvillage and civil parish in Rushcliffe, Nottinghamshire, England2.2 km
  • Whatton-in-the-Valevillage in Nottinghamshire, England, UK2.1 km
  • Orstonvillage in Nottinghamshire, England, UK3.2 km