Slipton
Slipton is a village in the civil parish of Lowick, in the North Northamptonshire district, in the ceremonial county of Northamptonshire, England.
Slipton is a village in the civil parish of Lowick, in the North Northamptonshire district, in the ceremonial county of Northamptonshire, England. Slipton has a small but exquisite church, St John The Baptist, a short walk from Main Street by footpath on the east side of the village. The church is what makes Slipton a village rather than a hamlet as it is often mistaken for. In 1931 the parish had a population of 80.
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Worth seeing in and around Slipton
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.
- 01Drayton House
Drayton House is a Grade I listed country house of many periods 1 mile south-west of the village of Lowick, Northamptonshire, England. Described as Northamptonshire's most impressive medieval mansion by Nikolaus Pevsner, "one of the best-kept secrets of the English country house world" by architectural historian Gervase Jackson-Stops, and "a most venerable heap of ugliness, with many curious bits" by Horace Walpole, the house is generally held to have been begun in 1328.
1.4 km · Grade I listed building in Lowick, East Northamptonshire, UK · Wikipedia - 02St Andrew's Church, Cranford
St Andrew's Church is a redundant Anglican church in Cranford St Andrew, Northamptonshire, 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 Churches Conservation Trust.
3.4 km · church in Northamptonshire, UK · Wikipedia - 03St Peter's Church, Lowick
St. Peter's Church, Lowick, is the Church of England parish church of Lowick, Northamptonshire, England.
3.2 km · church in Lowick, Northamptonshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 04Cranford St John SSSI
Cranford St John SSSI is a 2.8-hectare geological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Cranford St John, east of Kettering in Northamptonshire. It is a Geological Conservation Review site.
4 km · UK Site of Special Scientific Interest · Wikipedia
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Getting to Slipton
- Airports
- London Luton (LTN), 61 km · East Midlands (EMA), 68 km · Birmingham (BHX), 78 km
- Luton, Luton → Slipton59 km · quickest by road, 1h 37m · £6–9
- Nottingham, Leicestershire → Slipton72 km · quickest by road, 2h 8m · £11–14
- London → Slipton105 km · quickest by road, 2h 51m · £12–16
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No local-transport research exists yet for Slipton
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 Slipton. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
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If you know how people move in Slipton – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Slipton
Slipton is 44 km from Leicester, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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- Twywellvillage and civil parish in Northamptonshire, United Kingdom1.2 km
- Sudboroughvillage and civil parish in Northamptonshire, United Kingdom3.5 km
- Woodfordvillage and civil parish in Northamptonshire, England, UK2.9 km
- Grafton Underwoodvillage and civil parish in Northamptonshire, United Kingdom2.8 km
- Lowickvillage and civil parish in Northamptonshire, UK2.7 km