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Thurleigh

Thurleigh is a village and civil parish in the Borough of Bedford, north Bedfordshire, England, situated around 5 miles (8.0 km) north of Bedford town centre.

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The place

Thurleigh is a village and civil parish in the Borough of Bedford, north Bedfordshire, England, situated around 5 miles (8.0 km) north of Bedford town centre.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Thurleigh

2 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
    Bletsoe Castle

    Bletsoe Castle was a late medieval fortified manor house in the village of Bletsoe, Bedfordshire, England.

    3 km · castle in Bletsoe, Bedfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Thurleigh Castle

    Thurleigh Castle, also known as Bury Hills, was a medieval castle in the civil parish of Thurleigh, in the county of Bedfordshire, England.

    300 m · motte-and-bailey castle in Thurleigh, Bedford, 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.

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Getting to Thurleigh

Airports
London Luton (LTN), 38 km · London Stansted (STN), 60 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 83 km
Stations
RAE Bedford, 2 km · Bedford Aerodrome, 2.2 km
  • London, Essex → Thurleigh
    82 km · quickest by road, 2h 20m · £9–13
  • London → Thurleigh
    82 km · quickest by road, 2h 20m · £9–13
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Thurleigh
    94 km · quickest by road, 2h 34m · £12–16
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Thurleigh

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 Thurleigh. 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

    180 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    312 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    384 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    483 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    518 km

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

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