Whelford
Whelford is a village in the civil parish of Kempsford, in the Cotswold district, in the county of Gloucestershire, England.
Whelford is a village in the civil parish of Kempsford, in the Cotswold district, in the county of Gloucestershire, England. Whelford lies on the River Coln, 2 miles (3.2 km) south east of Fairford. In 1864, a chapel of ease was constructed in the Early English architectural style.
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Worth seeing in and around Whelford
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.
- 01St John the Baptist Church, Inglesham
St John the Baptist Church in Inglesham, near Swindon, Wiltshire, England, has Anglo-Saxon origins but most of the current structure was built around 1205. Much of the church has not changed since the medieval era.
3.6 km · church in Inglesham, UK · Wikipedia - 02St Mary's Church
St Mary's Church is a Church of England church in Fairford, Gloucestershire, England. It is notable for its complete set of 28 medieval stained-glass windows, one of the best-preserved in England.
2.9 km · church in Fairford, Gloucestershire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 03The Round House
The round houses on the Thames and Severn Canal are five former lengthsmen's cottages built along the canal between Chalford and Lechlade in Gloucestershire, England. Constructed in the 1790s when the canal was built, all but one of them are Grade II listed and have been restored as private dwellings.
3.5 km · Grade II listed canal building in Inglesham near Lechlade, Cotswold, Gloucestershire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 04Church of St Mary the Virgin
The Anglican Church of St Mary the Virgin at Kempsford in the Cotswold District of Gloucestershire, England, was built in the 12th century. It is a grade I listed building.
2.5 km · Grade I listed church, Cotswold, United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 05Hannington Bridge
Hannington Bridge is a road bridge across the River Thames in England. It carries a minor road between Kempsford in Gloucestershire and Hannington Wick in Wiltshire.
2.9 km · bridge in Gloucestershire/Wiltshire, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Whelford
- Airports
- Bristol (BRS), 75 km · Birmingham (BHX), 85 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 93 km
- Stations
- Fairford railway station, 2.1 km
- London → Whelford11709 km · quickest by air, 22h 53m · £132,420–206,190
- Bristol → Whelford64 km · quickest by road, 1h 39m · £8–11
- Birmingham, West Midlands → Whelford89 km · quickest by road, 2h 27m · £11–15
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No local-transport research exists yet for Whelford
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 Whelford. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
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