Market town in Gloucestershire, England

Fairford

Fairford is a market town in Gloucestershire, England.

Every way there

London → Fairford
116 km · quickest by road, 2h 33m · £14–18
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Bristol → Fairford
63 km · quickest by road, 1h 38m · £7–9
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Birmingham, West Midlands → Fairford
86 km · quickest by road, 2h 19m · £11–14
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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 Fairford, 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 Fairford has

YScheduled flightsBristol (BRS), 74 km
YTrains and coachesTransitous carries 3 timetable feeds for this country, 2 with real-time
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.

51.708°, -1.785°

The town lies in the Cotswold hills on the River Coln, 6 miles (10 km) east of Cirencester, 4 miles (6 km) west of Lechlade and 9 miles (14 km) north of Swindon. Nearby are RAF Fairford and the Cotswold Water Park.

Get in

Getting to Fairford

Fairford is 8 miles from Cirencester and 5.5 miles from Bibury on the A417.

See

Worth seeing

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St Mary
Late Perpendicular 'wool' church with its pinnacled tower, magnificent stained medieval stained glass and a wealth of carvings in both wood and stone.

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