Wasperton
Wasperton is a village and civil parish in the English county of Warwickshire.
Wasperton is a village and civil parish in the English county of Warwickshire. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 153.
It is on the east bank of the River Avon and is some 5 miles (8 km) south of the town of Warwick which is easily accessed by the A429 road. Between 1980 and 1985 extensive excavations in advance of gravel digging revealed a cemetery which contained both Roman and Anglo-Saxon graves. There were over 200 inhumations and 26 cremation burials uncovered. 116 inhumations and 24 cremations were determined to be Anglo-Saxon. 40 inhumations have been determined to be Roman, 44 inhumations could not be dated. The graves included spears, shields, knives, brooches and beads.
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Worth seeing in and around Wasperton
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.
- 01Charlecote Park
Charlecote Park is a grand 16th-century country house, surrounded by its own deer park, on the banks of the River Avon in Charlecote near Wellesbourne, about 4 miles east of Stratford-upon-Avon and 5.5 miles south of Warwick in Warwickshire, England. It has been administered by the National Trust since 1946.
2.4 km · country house near Stratford-on-Avon, Warwickshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 02Hampton Lucy bridge
Hampton Lucy Bridge is a cast-iron bridge over the River Avon at the east end of the village of Hampton Lucy in Warwickshire, England. It was originally constructed in 1829, and was Grade II listed on 6 February 1952.
1.8 km · bridge in Hampton Lucy, Stratford-on-Avon, Warwickshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 03Church of St Peter ad Vincula
St Peter ad Vincula is the Grade I listed Church of England parish church of Hampton Lucy, Warwickshire and is part of the Barford Group of Churches. It was built in the 1820s on the site of a demolished medieval church.
2 km · Grade I listed church in Hampton Lucy, Stratford-on-Avon, Warwickshire, England, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
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Getting to Wasperton
- Airports
- Birmingham (BHX), 27 km · East Midlands (EMA), 70 km · London Luton (LTN), 94 km
- Stations
- Wellesbourne Mountford Airfield, 3.8 km
- Nottingham, Leicestershire → Wasperton87 km · quickest by road, 1h 55m · £9–12
- London → Wasperton130 km · quickest by road, 2h 37m · £14–19
- Luton, Luton → Wasperton90 km · quickest by road, 2h 10m · £11–15
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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No local-transport research exists yet for Wasperton
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 Wasperton. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
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If you know how people move in Wasperton – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Wasperton
Wasperton is 21 km from Coventry, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Newbold Paceyvillage and civil parish in Stratford-on-Avon, Warwickshire, England3.3 km
- Wellesbournevillage in Warwickshire, UK3.8 km
- Sherbournevillage and civil parish in Warwickshire, UK2.6 km
- Charlecotevillage and civil parish in Stratford-on-Avon, Warwickshire, England, UK2 km
- Hampton Lucyvillage in Stratford-on-Avon, Warwickshire, England, United Kingdom2 km
- Barfordvillage and civil parish in Warwickshire, UK2.1 km