Silverstone
Silverstone is a village and civil parish in West Northamptonshire, England.
Silverstone is a village and civil parish in West Northamptonshire, England. The village is about 3.5 miles (5.6 km) south-southwest of Towcester and 6.5 miles (10.5 km) northeast of Brackley, both accessed via the A43 main road which now bypasses Silverstone to the south and east. The village is also about 11.5 miles (18.5 km) south-southwest of Northampton, 12 miles (19 km) west-northwest of Milton Keynes, and 13.5 miles (21.7 km) east-northeast of Banbury. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 2,176.
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Worth seeing in and around Silverstone
One place 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.
- 01Bucknell Wood Meadows
Bucknell Wood Meadows is a 9.2-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest north-west of Silverstone in Northamptonshire. This site consists of agriculturally unimproved fields on seasonally waterlogged soils.
3 km · Site in Northamptonshire, England · Wikipedia
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What Wikivoyage says to see
- 01Hazelborough Wood
Tracts of ancient woodland around a large area of the region making up the Whittlewood Forest.
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Things to do
- 01Silverstone Circuit
It hosts the British Grand Prix / Formula One, with the next on 2-4 July 2027.
- 02Silverstone Interactive Museum
- 03Porsche Driving Experience Centre
Hangar Straight, Silverstone Circuit, Towcester, NN12 8GR (within Silverstone Circuit),.
- 04Whittlebury Park
Golf, hotel and camping site during races.
- 05Silverstone Golf Club
Golf, hotel and camping site during races.
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Getting to Silverstone
- Airports
- London Luton (LTN), 51 km · Birmingham (BHX), 64 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 79 km
- Stations
- Silverstone Heliport, 2.1 km · RAF Silverstone, 2.2 km
- Luton, Luton → Silverstone48 km · quickest by road, 1h 10m · £5–7
- London → Silverstone90 km · quickest by road, 2h 22m · £10–13
- Birmingham, West Midlands → Silverstone74 km · quickest by road, 1h 47m · £9–12
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Silverstone
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 Silverstone. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- 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.
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If you know how people move in Silverstone – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Silverstone
Silverstone is 48 km from Coventry, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Abthorpevillage and civil parish in Northamptonshire, England, UK3.2 km
- Whittleburyvillage and civil parish in Northamptonshire, United Kingdom2.6 km
- Wood Burcotevillage in Northamptonshire, United Kingdom3.6 km