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Wappenham

Wappenham is a linear village and civil parish in West Northamptonshire, England.

Wappenham
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The place

Wappenham is a linear village and civil parish in West Northamptonshire, England. It is 5 miles (8 km) south-west of Towcester, north of Syresham and north-west of Silverstone and forms part of West Northamptonshire. At the time of the 2001 census, the parish's population was 266 people, increasing to 294 at the 2011 Census.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Wappenham

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
    Astwell Castle

    Astwell Castle is a manor house in Northamptonshire, England about 1.5 miles south-west of Wappenham. It is a Grade II listed building and part of the parish of Helmdon, a village 1 mile west.

    2.2 km · castle in Helmdon, West Northamptonshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Weedon Lois Castle Mound

    Weedon Lois Castle was a castle in the village of Weedon Lois, Northamptonshire, England. The castle was the caput baroniae of the barony of Weedon or Weedon Pinkeney.

    2.7 km · castle in Northamptonshire, England · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Church of St Botolph

    The Church of St Botolph, Slapton, also referred to as Slapton, St Botolph, is the ancient parish church of the village of Slapton near Towcester in West Northamptonshire, United Kingdom. Constructed sometime around the late 12th and early 13th centuries the church is notable for its almost complete surviving set of late medieval wall paintings, widely considered the finest in Northamptonshire.

    2 km · church in Slapton, Northamptonshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Bucknell Wood Meadows

    Bucknell Wood Meadows is a 9.2-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest north-west of Silverstone in Northamptonshire. This site consists of agriculturally unimproved fields on seasonally waterlogged soils.

    1.7 km · Site in Northamptonshire, England · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Weston Hall

    Weston Hall is a 17th-century manor house in Weston, Northamptonshire. The house was owned by the Sitwell family's ancestors from 1714 to 2021.

    3.6 km · house in Weston, Northamptonshire, 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 Wappenham

Airports
London Luton (LTN), 56 km · Birmingham (BHX), 59 km · East Midlands (EMA), 82 km
  • Luton, Luton → Wappenham
    52 km · quickest by road, 1h 24m · £6–8
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Wappenham
    69 km · quickest by road, 1h 56m · £9–12
  • London → Wappenham
    94 km · quickest by road, 2h 36m · £10–14
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Wappenham

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inA new off-road cycleway connects Buckingham to Winslow via Padbury and Adstock, following the route of the A413.

From Wikivoyage: Buckingham, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

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

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    158 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    268 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    429 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    468 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    504 km

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

Around it

Next door to Wappenham

Wappenham is 44 km from Coventry, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Abthorpevillage and civil parish in Northamptonshire, England, UK2.7 km
  • Syreshamvillage and civil parish in Northamptonshire, United Kingdom3.8 km
  • Woodendvillage and civil parish in Northamptonshire, United Kingdom3.7 km
  • Slaptonvillage and civil parish in Northamptonshire, England, UK2 km
  • Braddenvillage and civil parish in Northamptonshire, England, UK3.6 km
  • Weedon Loisvillage in Northamptonshire, United Kingdom2.8 km