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Village and civil parish in the South Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England · United Kingdom

Dowsby

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

The place

Dowsby is a village and civil parish in the South Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England. It is situated on the western edge of The Fens at the junction of the east–west B1397 road and the north–south B1177. It is 1 mile (1.6 km) north-east from Rippingale and just south of Pointon. The civil parish includes the hamlet of Graby. Nearby to the east, along the B1397 at Dowsby Fen, is Car Dyke. The civil parish population taken at the 2011 census was 204.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Dowsby

5 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
    Church of St Andrew, Rippingale

    Grade I listed church, South Kesteven, United Kingdom

    2.3 km · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    St James' Church, Aslackby

    Church in Aslackby, Lincolnshire, England, UK

    2.9 km · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Dowsby Hall

    Historic site in near Bourne, Lincolnshire, England, UK

    300 m · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Aslackby Preceptory

    Historic site in The Temple Farm

    2.9 km · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Sempringham Priory

    Building in Lincolnshire, England, UK

    3 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.

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Getting to Dowsby

Airports
East Midlands (EMA), 66 km · Birmingham (BHX), 104 km · London Luton (LTN), 109 km
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Dowsby
    55 km · quickest by road, 1h 35m · £7–9
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Dowsby
    112 km · quickest by road, 2h 50m · £13–18
  • Luton, Luton → Dowsby
    108 km · quickest by road, 2h 47m · £12–16
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Dowsby

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 Dowsby. 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

    249 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    349 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    359 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    434 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    468 km

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

Around it

Next door to Dowsby

Dowsby is 55 km from Nottingham, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.