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Shalstone

Shalstone is a village and civil parish in Buckinghamshire, England.

The place

Shalstone is a village and civil parish in Buckinghamshire, England. It is located in the north of the county, about four miles north west of Buckingham. The village name is Anglo-Saxon in origin, and means 'farm by a shallow stream'. In the Domesday Book of 1086 the village was recorded as Celdestone.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Shalstone

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.

  1. 01
    Stowe House

    Stowe House is a Grade I listed country house in Stowe, Buckinghamshire, England. It is the home of the private Stowe School and is owned by the Stowe House Preservation Trust.

    3.4 km · country house located in Stowe, Buckinghamshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Beaumont Castle

    Beaumont Castle was a medieval castle in Mixbury, Oxfordshire, England, located at grid reference SP610140.

    4 km · castle in Mixbury, Oxfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Biddlesden Abbey

    Biddlesden was a Cistercian abbey founded in 1147 by Ernald de Bosco, steward to the Earl of Leicester. The first monks came from the earl's own foundation at Garendon.

    3.5 km · abbey · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Stowe Park and Garden

    Stowe Gardens, formerly Stowe Landscape Gardens, are extensive Grade I listed gardens and parkland in Buckinghamshire, England. Largely created in the 18th century, the gardens at Stowe are arguably the most significant example of the English landscape garden.

    3.8 km · park and garden in Buckinghamshire, 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 Shalstone

Airports
London Luton (LTN), 51 km · Birmingham (BHX), 67 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 74 km
Stations
Water Stratford Halt railway station, 2.5 km
  • Luton, Luton → Shalstone
    47 km · quickest by road, 1h 15m · £5–7
  • London → Shalstone
    86 km · quickest by road, 2h 27m · £10–13
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Shalstone
    76 km · quickest by road, 1h 54m · £9–12
  • From anywhere
    The planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Shalstone

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inA new off-road cycleway connects Buckingham to Winslow via Padbury and Adstock, following the route of the A413.

From Wikivoyage: Buckingham, 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

    149 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    266 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    431 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    477 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    513 km

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

Around it

Next door to Shalstone

Shalstone is 52 km from Coventry, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Water Stratfordvillage in Buckinghamshire, England, UK2.1 km
  • Westburyvillage and civil parish in Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom2 km
  • Biddlesdenvillage in Buckinghamshire, England, UK3.7 km
  • Mixburyvillage and civil parish in Cherwell district, Oxfordshire, England3.9 km
  • Finmerevillage and civil parish in Cherwell district, Oxfordshire, England3.6 km
  • Boycotthamlet in Buckinghamshire, England, United Kingdom2 km