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Colsterworth

Colsterworth is a village and civil parish in the South Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England, less than half a mile (0.8 km) west of the A1, about 7 miles (11 km) south of Grantham, and 12 miles (19 km) north-west of Stamford.

Colsterworth
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The place

Colsterworth is a village and civil parish in the South Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England, less than half a mile (0.8 km) west of the A1, about 7 miles (11 km) south of Grantham, and 12 miles (19 km) north-west of Stamford. The village with the hamlet of Woolsthorpe-by-Colsterworth had a recorded population of 1,713 at the time of the 2011 census, in an area of 1,465 hectares.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Colsterworth

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
    Woolsthorpe Manor

    Woolsthorpe Manor in Woolsthorpe-by-Colsterworth, near Grantham, Lincolnshire, England, is the birthplace and family home of Sir Isaac Newton. In the orchard within the grounds is Newton's famous apple tree.

    900 m · country house in Woolsthorpe-by-Colsterworth, Lincolnshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Church of St Mary and St Andrew, Stoke Rochford

    St Andrew and St Mary's Church is a Grade I listed Church of England parish church dedicated to Saint Andrew and Saint Mary, in the parish of Easton and the village of Stoke Rochford, Lincolnshire, England. The church is 5 miles south from Grantham, and at the western side of the Lincolnshire Vales in South Kesteven.

    3.5 km · church in Stoke Rochford, Lincolnshire, England, UK · Wikipedia

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Getting to Colsterworth

Airports
East Midlands (EMA), 48 km · Birmingham (BHX), 86 km · London Luton (LTN), 105 km
Stations
RAF North Witham, 1.9 km
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Colsterworth
    39 km · quickest by road, 1h 6m · £4.5–6
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Colsterworth
    94 km · quickest by road, 2h 19m · £11–15
  • Luton, Luton → Colsterworth
    104 km · quickest by road, 2h 28m · £11–15
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Colsterworth

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

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

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    240 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    331 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    378 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    426 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    460 km

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Around it

Next door to Colsterworth

Colsterworth is 39 km from Leicester, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.