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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
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The place

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.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

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.

  1. 01
    Gunby 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
  2. 02
    Hanby 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

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.

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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 → Candlesby
    92 km · quickest by road, 2h 25m · £11–14
  • Leeds, West Yorkshire → Candlesby
    133 km · quickest by road, 2h 43m · £15–20
  • London, Essex → Candlesby
    187 km · quickest by road, 4h 7m · £20–27
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Not yet researched

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.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • 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.

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

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    296 km
  2. 02
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    320 km
  3. 03
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    399 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    435 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    467 km

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

Around it

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