Gainsborough
Gainsborough is a market town and civil parish in the West Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England.

Gainsborough is a market town and civil parish in the West Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. The population was 20,842 at the 2011 census, and estimated at 23,243 in 2019. It lies on the east bank of the River Trent, 18 miles (29 km) north-west of Lincoln, 16 miles (26 km) south-west of Scunthorpe, 20 miles south-east of Doncaster and 39 miles (63 km) east of Sheffield. It is sometimes claimed to be England's furthest-inland port.
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Getting to Gainsborough
- Airports
- East Midlands (EMA), 73 km · Leeds Bradford (LBA), 78 km · Manchester (MAN), 100 km
- Nottingham, Leicestershire → Gainsborough54 km · quickest by road, 1h 37m · £6–9
- Leeds, West Yorkshire → Gainsborough69 km · quickest by road, 1h 42m · £8–11
- Manchester, Greater Manchester → Gainsborough98 km · quickest by road, 2h 43m · £11–14
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No local-transport research exists yet for Gainsborough
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 Gainsborough. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
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Next door to Gainsborough
Gainsborough is 46 km from Sheffield, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.