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Sharpenhoe

Sharpenhoe is a small village in Bedfordshire, England, at the foot of the hills known as the Sharpenhoe Clappers, which are within the Chilterns AONB.

Sharpenhoe
Sharpenhoe · Alastair Rae from London, United Kingdom
The place

Sharpenhoe is a small village in Bedfordshire, England, at the foot of the hills known as the Sharpenhoe Clappers, which are within the Chilterns AONB. Smithcombe, Sharpenhoe and Sundon Hills are a Site of Special Scientific Interest, and most of it is a National Trust property. It is in the civil parish of Streatley.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Sharpenhoe

Airports
London Luton (LTN), 11 km · London Stansted (STN), 48 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 55 km
  • London → Sharpenhoe
    55 km · quickest by road, 1h 40m · £6–8
  • London, Essex → Sharpenhoe
    55 km · quickest by road, 1h 40m · £6–8
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Sharpenhoe
    114 km · quickest by road, 2h 18m · £12–16
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Sharpenhoe

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inIt's a major hub for the budget airlines easyJet, Ryanair and Wizz Air, and for charter flights by Tui.

From Wikivoyage: Luton, 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

    154 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    304 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    394 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    506 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    542 km

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Around it

Next door to Sharpenhoe

Sharpenhoe is 47 km from Brent, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.