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# Buckminster

Buckminster is a village and civil parish within the Melton district of Leicestershire, England, which includes the two villages of Buckminster and Sewstern.

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## Every way there

- Nottingham, Leicestershire → Buckminster 35 km · quickest by road, 57 min · £4–5 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/nottingham-leicestershire-to-buckminster) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Nottingham%2C+Leicestershire&to=Buckminster)
- Birmingham, West Midlands → Buckminster 84 km · quickest by road, 1h 39m · £10–14 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/birmingham-west-midlands-to-buckminster) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Birmingham%2C+West+Midlands&to=Buckminster)
- Luton, Luton → Buckminster 103 km · quickest by road, 2h 1m · £12–16 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/luton-luton-to-buckminster) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Luton%2C+Luton&to=Buckminster)

Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

The field note

What is in and around Buckminster, ranked by how widely it is written about, how you reach it, and the nearest places where we have researched how people move.

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What Buckminster has

- Y Scheduled flights Nottingham, Leicestershire (EMA), 42 km
- N Trains and coaches no timetable feed known for this country
- N Ferries no crossing within 25 km
- Y Driving and taxi OpenStreetMap roads; cab fare from the country band
- N Bike and scooter share no share feed known
- N Cruises no open itinerary source anywhere

Y routable now · F found, not yet implemented · N no source known. Nearest place with more: Corby, 33 km.

52.793°, -0.701°

The total population of the civil parish was 335 at the 2021 census. It is on the B676 road, 10 miles east of Melton Mowbray and 4 miles west of the A1 at Colsterworth.

Text adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buckminster), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Steve Yelvington (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.


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