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Barrowby

Barrowby is a village and civil parish in the South Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England.

Barrowby
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The place

Barrowby is a village and civil parish in the South Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England. It is 2 miles (3.2 km) west of Grantham. It overlooks the Vale of Belvoir and has a Grade I listed parish church. The hamlet of Casthorpe is part of the parish. The 2001 Census listed 795 households and a population of 1,996, which fell to 840 households with 1,952 inhabitants at the 2011 census. It was estimated at 1,986 in 2019.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Barrowby

10 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
    Grantham

    Market town and civil parish in South Kesteven, Lincolnshire, England

    3.6 km · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    St Wulfram's Church, Grantham

    Church in Grantham, Lincolnshire, England, UK

    3.4 km · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    St Mary and St Peter’s Church, Harlaxton

    Church in Harlaxton, Lincolnshire, England, UK

    3.7 km · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    All Saints Church

    Church in Barrowby, Lincolnshire, England, UK

    300 m · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Francis Trigge Chained Library

    Chained library in Grantham, Lincolnshire, England

    3.4 km · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Finkin Street Methodist Church

    Church in Grantham, United Kingdom

    3.4 km · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Angel and Royal Hotel

    Grade I listed building in Grantham, Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom

    3.3 km · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Grantham Museum

    Museum in Grantham, Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom

    3.6 km · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Statue of Margaret Thatcher

    Statue in Grantham, Lincolnshire, England

    3.5 km · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    The Guildhall and Sessions Hall

    Building in Grantham, Lincolnshire, England, UK

    3.5 km · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Go there

Getting to Barrowby

Airports
East Midlands (EMA), 44 km · Birmingham (BHX), 88 km · Manchester (MAN), 116 km
Stations
Grantham railway station, 3.6 km
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Barrowby
    31 km · quickest by road, 52 min · £3–4.5
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Barrowby
    95 km · quickest by road, 2h 12m · £11–14
  • Manchester, Greater Manchester → Barrowby
    121 km · quickest by road, 2h 48m · £14–19
  • From anywhere
    The planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Barrowby

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 Barrowby. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Go nextDirect trains to London mean that the capital is in easy reach for a day trip or to continue your travels.

From Wikivoyage: East Midlands, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2025-06.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    251 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    334 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    381 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    413 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    448 km

If you know how people move in Barrowby – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Barrowby

Barrowby is 31 km from Nottingham, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Harlaxtonvillage in Lincolnshire, UK3.7 km
  • Great Gonerbyvillage in Lincolnshire, England2.6 km
  • Sedgebrookvillage in Lincolnshire, England, UK3 km
  • Casthorpehamlet in Barrowby, South Kesteven, Lincolnshire, England2.3 km
  • Lincolnshireupcoming district in Lincolnshire, England3.4 km