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Upper Rissington

Upper Rissington is a village and civil parish in the Cotswold district of Gloucestershire, England.

Upper Rissington
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The place

Upper Rissington is a village and civil parish in the Cotswold district of Gloucestershire, England. It is located about two-and-a-half miles east of Bourton-on-the-Water and is one of the highest villages in the Cotswolds at an elevation of 275 m.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Upper Rissington

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
    Birdland Park and Gardens

    Birdland Park and Gardens, often called Birdland, is a wildlife park in Bourton-on-the-Water, Gloucestershire, England. First opened in 1957, the park moved to its current site in 1989.

    3.4 km · zoo in Bourton-on-the-Water · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Cotswold Motoring Museum

    The Cotswold Motoring Museum is a museum in the Cotswolds village of Bourton-on-the-Water, Gloucestershire, England. It features motoring history of the 20th century.

    3.8 km · museum in Bourton-on-the-Water, Gloucestershire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Icomb Place

    Icomb Place is a medieval manor house on the edge of the village of Icomb, near Stow on the Wold in Gloucestershire. The word "place" in this context is thought to be a precursor of "palace".

    2.7 km · Grade I listed English country house in Cotswold, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Church of St Laurence

    The Anglican Church of St Laurence at Wyck Rissington in the Cotswold District of Gloucestershire, England, was built in the 12th century. It is a grade I listed building.

    2.1 km · church in Cotswold, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Church of St Mary

    The Anglican Church of St Mary at Icomb in the Cotswold District of Gloucestershire, England, was built in the 15th century. It is a grade I listed building.

    3 km · church in Icomb Gloucestershire, 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 Upper Rissington

Airports
Birmingham (BHX), 64 km · Bristol (BRS), 89 km · London Luton (LTN), 92 km
Stations
Royal Air Force Station Little Rissington, 1.1 km
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Upper Rissington
    69 km · quickest by road, 2h 2m · £9–12
  • London → Upper Rissington
    116 km · quickest by road, 2h 55m · £12–16
  • Bristol → Upper Rissington
    78 km · quickest by road, 2h 2m · £9–12
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Upper Rissington

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 Upper Rissington. 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

    135 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    219 km
  3. 03
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    469 km
  4. 04
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    478 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    505 km

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

Around it

Next door to Upper Rissington

  • Bourton-on-the-Watervillage and civil parish in Gloucestershire, United Kingdom3.9 km
  • Little Rissingtonvillage in Gloucestershire, England, UK1.6 km
  • Fifieldvillage and civil parish in West Oxfordshire, Oxfordshire, England3.5 km
  • Icombvillage and civil parish in Gloucestershire, England, UK2.8 km
  • Great Rissingtonvillage and civil parish in Gloucestershire, England2.6 km
  • Idburyvillage and civil parish in West Oxfordshire, Oxfordshire, England3.1 km