Woburn Sands
Woburn Sands is a town that straddles the border between Buckinghamshire and Bedfordshire in England, and is part of the Milton Keynes urban area.
Woburn Sands is a town that straddles the border between Buckinghamshire and Bedfordshire in England, and is part of the Milton Keynes urban area. The larger part of the town is in Woburn Sands civil parish, which is in the City of Milton Keynes, The built-up area of the town extends continuously to include much of the neighbouring parishes of Aspley Guise and Aspley Heath, with no natural boundaries to set them apart. The meandering boundary between Buckinghamshire and Bedfordshire means the Lower and Middle Schools that serve all of the town are both in Aspley Guise CP. Bedfordshire Police and Thames Valley Police both deal with law enforcement issues in the town. At the 2021 Census, the population of the civil parish (only) was 3.646. The population of the contiguous built-up area was 4,310.
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Worth seeing in and around Woburn Sands
10 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.
- 01The Open University
The Open University is a public research university and the largest university in the United Kingdom by number of students. The majority of the OU's undergraduate students are based in the United Kingdom and principally study off-campus; many of its courses can also be studied anywhere in the world.
4 km · university in Milton Keynes, UK · Wikipedia - 02Stadium MK
Stadium MK is a football stadium in the Denbigh district of Bletchley in Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England. Designed by Populous and opened in 2007, it is the home ground of EFL League One side Milton Keynes Dons and FA Women's National League South side Milton Keynes Dons Women.
5.8 km · football stadium in Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 03Woburn Abbey
Woburn Abbey, occupying the east of the village of Woburn, Bedfordshire, England, is a country house, the family seat of the Duke of Bedford. Although it is still a family home to the current duke, it is open on specified days to visitors, along with the diverse estate surrounding it, including the historic landscape gardens and deer park, as well as more recently added attractions including Woburn Safari Park, a miniature railway and a garden/visitor centre.
5.1 km · occupying the east of the village of Woburn, Bedfordshire, England, is a country house, the family seat of the Duke of Bedford · Wikipedia - 04Woburn Safari Park
Woburn Safari Park is a safari park located in Woburn, Bedfordshire, England. Visitors to the park can drive through exhibits, which contain species such as southern white rhinos, elephants, tigers and black bears.
4.3 km · safari park located in Woburn, Bedfordshire, England · Wikipedia - 05Church of St Mary the Virgin, Salford
Church of St Mary the Virgin is a Grade I listed church in Salford, Bedfordshire, England. It is still standing in 2024.
3.2 km · church in Salford, Bedfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 06Church of St Mary
Church of St Mary is a 13th-century parish church in the village of Wavendon, City of Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England. It was designated a Grade II* listed building in 1966.
2 km · church in Wavendon, Buckinghamshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 07St Lawrence's Church, Broughton
St Lawrence's Church is a redundant Anglican church in Broughton, Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England. The church is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building, and is under the care of the Churches Conservation Trust.
5.3 km · Grade I listed church in Broughton, Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 08Manor Fields
Manor Fields is a cricket ground in Bletchley, Buckinghamshire. The first recorded match on the ground was in 1973, when Young England women played International XI women in the ground's only Women's One Day International.
4.9 km · Cricket ground in Bletchley, Buckinghamshire · Wikipedia - 09Church of St Nicholas, Hulcote
Church of St Nicholas is a Grade I listed church in Hulcote, Bedfordshire, England. It became a listed building on 23 January 1961.
3.2 km · church in Hulcote, Bedfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 10Church of Saint Mary
St Mary's Church, Woburn, is a Grade II* listed parish church in the Church of England in Woburn, Bedfordshire.
3.5 km · church in Woburn, Bedfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Woburn Sands
- Airports
- London Luton (LTN), 25 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 62 km · London Stansted (STN), 62 km
- Stations
- Woburn Sands railway station, 500 m · Bow Brickhill railway station, 3.4 km · Fenny Stratford railway station, 5 km · Aspley Guise railway station, 1.3 km · Ridgmont railway station, 3.9 km
- London → Woburn Sands67 km · quickest by road, 1h 50m · £7–9
- London, Essex → Woburn Sands67 km · quickest by road, 1h 50m · £7–9
- Birmingham, West Midlands → Woburn Sands100 km · quickest by road, 2h 2m · £10–14
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No local-transport research exists yet for Woburn Sands
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 Woburn Sands. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
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Next door to Woburn Sands
Woburn Sands is 57 km from Brent, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Woburnvillage and civil parish in Bedfordshire, England3.6 km
- Aspley Guisevillage in Bedfordshire, England1.4 km
- Aspley Heathvillage and civil parish in the Central Bedfordshire district of Bedfordshire, England1.1 km
- Ridgmontvillage and civil parish in Bedfordshire, UK4.8 km
- Wavendonvillage and civil parish in Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom2.2 km
- Brogboroughvillage and civil parish in Bedfordshire, UK4.4 km