Barkestone-le-Vale

Worth seeing in and around Barkestone-le-Vale

3 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

1. 01
   Belvoir Castle

   Belvoir Castle is a faux historic castle and stately home in Leicestershire, England, situated 6 mi west of the town of Grantham and 10 mi northeast of Melton Mowbray. A castle was first built on the site immediately after the Norman Conquest of 1066 and has since been rebuilt at least three times.

   3.9 km · historic house museum and home of the Dukes of Rutland in Leicestershire, England, UK · Wikipedia
2. 02
   Church of St Peter and St Paul

   The Church of St Peter and St Paul is a church in Barkestone-le-Vale, Leicestershire, England. It is a Grade II* listed building.

   1.8 km · church in Barkestone, Leicestershire, England, UK · Wikipedia
3. 03
   Grantham Canal SSSI

   Grantham Canal SSSI is a 9.5-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest which runs along a stretch of the Grantham Canal and its banks between Redmile and Harby in Leicestershire. This site has diverse aquatic and terrestrial habitats, which supports a varied insect community.

   1.9 km · UK Site of Special Scientific Interest · Wikipedia

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Getting to Barkestone-le-Vale

Airports

East Midlands (EMA), 33 km · Birmingham (BHX), 78 km · Manchester (MAN), 109 km

• Birmingham, West Midlands → Barkestone-le-Vale

  85 km · quickest by road, 2h 2m · £10–13
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• Manchester, Greater Manchester → Barkestone-le-Vale

  113 km · quickest by road, 2h 57m · £14–19
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• Luton, Luton → Barkestone-le-Vale

  118 km · quickest by road, 2h 26m · £15–20
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No local-transport research exists yet for Barkestone-le-Vale

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Barkestone-le-Vale. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

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