Beachampton village still has a church and retains a pub. The town of Stony Stratford is about 2½ miles providing good day-to-day shopping facilities, the market town of Winslow is 6 miles, and the city of Milton Keynes some 7 miles distant providing one of the largest undercover shopping centres in the UK, mainline station to London (Euston), extensive range of leisure pursuits including ice-skating, indoor ski slope, variety of restaurants, nightclubs, cafes and theatre district. The M1 Junction 13 is about 10 miles.