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Gainsborough

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

Gainsborough
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The place

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.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Gainsborough

Airports
East Midlands (EMA), 73 km · Leeds Bradford (LBA), 78 km · Manchester (MAN), 100 km
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Gainsborough
    54 km · quickest by road, 1h 37m · £6–9
  • Leeds, West Yorkshire → Gainsborough
    69 km · quickest by road, 1h 42m · £8–11
  • Manchester, Greater Manchester → Gainsborough
    98 km · quickest by road, 2h 43m · £11–14
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Not yet researched

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.

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

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    304 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    362 km
  3. 03
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    371 km
  4. 04
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    382 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    405 km

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Next door to Gainsborough

Gainsborough is 46 km from Sheffield, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.