Location: Rutland in United Kingdom
Nearest Airport:
Stansted / Luton / Birmingham / East Midlands at 68
Miles
Nearest Ferry:
Felixstowe at 123
Miles
Nearest Train:
Oakham at 5
Miles
Nearest Motorway:
A1 (B668 junction) at 4
Miles
Car: recommended
Charming market towns Oakham & Uppingham, are the only towns in England's smallest county. Oakham hosts its own summer festival. Melton Mowbray including its renowned Pork Pie shop lies just to the north.
Rutland Water, an important nature reserve, serves as an over-wintering site for wildfowl & an Osprey breeding site. Hire bicycles and cycle round this beauty spot!
Stamford, a beautiful historic town has marvellous shops & on its outskirts boasts the jewel of Burghley House home to the Burghley Horse Trials. Oft a film location including 2005 movie Pride & Prejudice and TV's Middlemarch. The Stamford Shakespeare Festival is held annually at Tolethorpe Hall in an atmospheric open air theatre.
Rockingham Motor Speedway & Rockingham Castle lie just 25 minutes south. Stunning Belvoir Castle (a Da Vinci Code film location) stands splendidly in the Vale of Belvoir just 25 minutes drive to the north.
Historic Cambridge is within a 1 hour drive to the south.