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Twywell

Twywell is an English village and civil parish in the county of Northamptonshire.

The place

Twywell is an English village and civil parish in the county of Northamptonshire. Twywell Hills and Dales Country Park is adjacent. It lies just to the north of the A14 road, about three miles (5 km) west of Thrapston, and forms part of North Northamptonshire. At the time of the 2011 census, the population of the parish was 176.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Twywell

5 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
    Drayton 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.

    2.1 km · Grade I listed building in Lowick, East Northamptonshire, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    St 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.

    2.9 km · church in Northamptonshire, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    St Peter's Church, Lowick

    St. Peter's Church, Lowick, is the Church of England parish church of Lowick, Northamptonshire, England.

    3.8 km · church in Lowick, Northamptonshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Cranford 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.

    3.4 km · UK Site of Special Scientific Interest · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Kinewell Lake

    Kinewell Lake is a 35.4 hectare Local Nature Reserve west of Ringstead in Northamptonshire, England. It is owned by Ringstead Parish Council and managed by Kinewell Lake Trust.

    4 km · park in United Kingdom · Wikipedia

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Getting to Twywell

Airports
London Luton (LTN), 60 km · East Midlands (EMA), 69 km · Birmingham (BHX), 78 km
  • Luton, Luton → Twywell
    58 km · quickest by road, 1h 33m · £6–8
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Twywell
    72 km · quickest by road, 1h 58m · £10–14
  • London → Twywell
    104 km · quickest by road, 2h 45m · £11–15
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Twywell

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 Twywell. 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

    196 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    311 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    387 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    461 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    497 km

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

Around it

Next door to Twywell

Twywell is 45 km from Leicester, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Islipvillage and civil parish in Northamptonshire, UK3.4 km
  • Great Addingtonvillage and civil parish in Northamptonshire, United Kingdom3.7 km
  • Woodfordvillage and civil parish in Northamptonshire, England, UK2 km
  • Grafton Underwoodvillage and civil parish in Northamptonshire, United Kingdom3.5 km
  • Lowickvillage and civil parish in Northamptonshire, UK3.2 km
  • Sliptonvillage in Northamptonshire, United Kingdom1.1 km