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Freeby

Freeby is a village and civil parish in the Melton district of Leicestershire, England, about 3 miles (5 km) east of Melton Mowbray.

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The place

Freeby is a village and civil parish in the Melton district of Leicestershire, England, about 3 miles (5 km) east of Melton Mowbray. As well as the village of Freeby the civil parish includes the villages of Brentingby, Saxby, Stapleford and Wyfordby. The 2011 Census recorded the parish population as 244.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Freeby

7 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
    Q16902166

    Twinlakes is a theme park located 0.5 miles north-east of Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire, England. The park was opened in September 2003, eleven months after the site was purchased.

    3.5 km · theme park in Leicestershire, England · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    St Mary Magdalene's Church, Stapleford

    St Mary Magdalene's Church is a redundant Anglican church near the village of Stapleford, Leicestershire, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building, and is under the care of the Churches Conservation Trust.

    2.1 km · Grade I listed church in Stapleford, Leicestershire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    St Mary's Church, Brentingby

    St Mary's Church is a redundant Anglican church in the village of Brentingby, Leicestershire, England. The walls of the church required renovation when converted into a private house, with the tower standing untouched.

    2.3 km · grade II listed church in Freeby, Melton, Leicestershire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    St Mary's Church, Garthorpe

    St Mary's Church is a redundant Church of England parish church in the village of Garthorpe, Leicestershire, England. The building is Grade I listed.

    2.9 km · Grade I listed church in Garthorpe, Melton, Leicestershire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    River Eye SSSI

    River Eye SSSI is a 6.0 hectares biological Site of Special Scientific Interest covering a stretch of the River Eye between Ham Bridge, north-west of Stapleford, and the eastern outskirts of Melton Mowbray in Leicestershire. It is a Nature Conservation Review site.

    3.4 km · UK Site of Special Scientific Interest · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Wymondham Rough

    Wymondham Rough is a 6.0 hectares biological Site of Special Scientific Interest east of Stapleford in Leicestershire. The SSSI is part of the 12.5 hectare Wymondham Rough nature reserve, which is managed by the Leicestershire and Rutland Wildlife Trust.

    3.8 km · Site of Special Scientific Interest in Leicestershire England, UK · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Stapleford Park

    Stapleford Park is a Grade I listed country house in Stapleford, near Melton Mowbray in Leicestershire, England, which is now used as a hotel. It was originally the seat of the Sherard and Tamblyn families, later the Earls of Harborough and, from 1894, of the Gretton family, who would become the Barons Gretton.

    2.3 km · country house in Freeby, Leicestershire, England, UK · Wikipedia

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Getting to Freeby

Airports
East Midlands (EMA), 35 km · Birmingham (BHX), 73 km · London Luton (LTN), 104 km
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Freeby
    80 km · quickest by road, 1h 58m · £10–13
  • Luton, Luton → Freeby
    62 km · quickest by road, 1h 53m · £10–13
  • London → Freeby
    18 km · quickest by road, 1h 9m · £2.5–3
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Freeby

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 Freeby. 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

    234 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    318 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    391 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    420 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    455 km

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

Around it

Next door to Freeby

Freeby is 26 km from Leicester, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Meltondistrict in Leicestershire, England3.1 km
  • Garthorpevillage and civil parish in Leicestershire, UK3 km
  • Thorpe Arnoldvillage in Leicestershire, UK3.3 km
  • Chadwellvillage in Leicestershire, United Kingdom3.4 km
  • Staplefordvillage in Leicestershire, United Kingdom1.9 km
  • Brentingbyvillage in Leicestershire, England, UK2.4 km