Village in Northamptonshire, England

Ecton

Ecton is a village and civil parish in North Northamptonshire, England.

Every way there

Luton, Luton → Ecton
49 km · quickest by road, 1h 12m · £6–8
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London → Ecton
95 km · quickest by road, 2h 24m · £10–14
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Birmingham, West Midlands → Ecton
80 km · quickest by road, 1h 46m · £9–12
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The field note

What is in and around Ecton, 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 Ecton has

YScheduled flightsLuton, Luton (LTN), 52 km
NTrains and coachesno timetable feed known for this country
NFerriesno crossing within 25 km
YDriving and taxiOpenStreetMap roads; cab fare from the country band
NBike and scooter shareno share feed known
NCruisesno open itinerary source anywhere

Y routable now · F found, not yet implemented · N no source known. Nearest place with more: Northampton, 7 km.

52.265°, -0.787°

The village is just east of Northampton, just off the A4500 road. It was one of the first villages in Northamptonshire to be given conservation status. The toponym is derived from the Old English words Ecca and tun, meaning "Ecca's farm/settlement."

Text adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Bearas (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.