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Thistleton

Thistleton is the most northerly village in the county of Rutland, and a civil parish, in the East Midlands of England.

Thistleton
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The place

Thistleton is the most northerly village in the county of Rutland, and a civil parish, in the East Midlands of England. The population of the village at the 2001 census was 99. It remained less than 100 at the 2011 census and was counted together with the civil parish of Stretton.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Thistleton

3 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
    Church of St Mary

    The Church of St Mary the Virgin is the Church of England parish church in Greetham, Rutland. It is a Grade I listed building.

    3.5 km · Grade I listed church in Greetham, Rutland, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Church of St Peter and St Paul

    The Church of St Peter and St Paul is the Church of England parish church in Market Overton, Rutland. The church is part of the Oakham team ministry.

    3.2 km · Grade I listed church in Market Overton, Rutland, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Church of St Nicholas

    St Nicholas' Church in Thistleton, Rutland, England, is a former Church of England parish church, now a chapel of ease. It is a Grade II* listed building.

    0 m · church in Thistleton, Rutland, United Kingdom · Wikipedia

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Getting to Thistleton

Airports
East Midlands (EMA), 47 km · Birmingham (BHX), 81 km · London Luton (LTN), 99 km
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Thistleton
    40 km · quickest by road, 59 min · £5–7
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Thistleton
    86 km · quickest by road, 1h 42m · £10–14
  • Luton, Luton → Thistleton
    98 km · quickest by road, 1h 53m · £11–15
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Thistleton

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

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    234 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    326 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    381 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 36 sources

    429 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    464 km

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

Around it

Next door to Thistleton

Thistleton is 35 km from Leicester, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Market Overtonvillage in Rutland, England3.1 km
  • Barrowvillage in Rutland, England3.3 km
  • Teighvillage in Rutland, England, UK2 km
  • Strettonvillage in Rutland, United Kingdom4 km
  • Greethamvillage and civil parish in Rutland, UK3.7 km
  • South Withamvillage and civil parish in the South Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England, UK1.7 km