Candlesby
Candlesby is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Candlesby with Gunby, in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England.

Candlesby is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Candlesby with Gunby, in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. It is situated 5 miles (8 km) east from Spilsby. Gunby is a hamlet about 1 mile (1.6 km) east from Candlesby. In 1961 the parish had a population of 144.
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Worth seeing in and around Candlesby
2 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.
- 01Gunby Hall
Gunby Hall is a country house in Gunby, near Spilsby, in Lincolnshire, England, reached by a one-half-mile-long private drive. The Estate comprises the 42-room Gunby Hall, listed Grade I, a clocktower, listed Grade II* and a carriage house and stable block which are listed Grade II. In 1944 the trustees of the Gunby Hall Estate, Lady Montgomery-Massingberd, Major Norman Leith-Hay-Clarke and Field Marshal Sir Archibald Montgomery-Massingberd, gave the house to the National Trust together with its contents and some 1,500 acres of land.
1.3 km · Grade I listed English country house in East Lindsey, United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 02Hanby Hall
Hanby Hall is a Grade II* listed early 18th-century building in Alford, Lincolnshire. Hanby Hall was built by John Andrews.
3 km · house in Lincolnshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Candlesby
- Airports
- East Midlands (EMA), 108 km · Leeds Bradford (LBA), 143 km · London Stansted (STN), 145 km
- Stations
- RAF Spilsby, 2.7 km
- Nottingham, Leicestershire → Candlesby92 km · quickest by road, 2h 25m · £11–14
- Leeds, West Yorkshire → Candlesby133 km · quickest by road, 2h 43m · £15–20
- London, Essex → Candlesby187 km · quickest by road, 4h 7m · £20–27
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Candlesby
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 Candlesby. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inThe nearest ferry port to Skegness is King George Dock in Hull.
From Wikivoyage: Skegness, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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