--- title: "Grainthorpe – what is there, and how you get there | Mixroutes" description: "Grainthorpe, United Kingdom: Grainthorpe is a small village and civil parish in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. Nearby: Covenham…" url: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/grainthorpe" markdown: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/grainthorpe.md" image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/59/Naturalis_Biodiversity_Center_-_RMNH.AVES.57512_1_-_Anthus_spinoletta_petrosus_%28Montagu%2C_1798%29_-_Motacillidae_-_bird_skin_specimen.jpeg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled" --- Village in Lincolnshire, England · United Kingdom # Grainthorpe Grainthorpe is a small village and civil parish in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. ![Grainthorpe](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/59/Naturalis_Biodiversity_Center_-_RMNH.AVES.57512_1_-_Anthus_spinoletta_petrosus_%28Montagu%2C_1798%29_-_Motacillidae_-_bird_skin_specimen.jpeg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled) Grainthorpe · Montagu, 1798 The place Grainthorpe is a small village and civil parish in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. It is situated 7 miles (11 km) north-east from the town of Louth, and approximately 3 miles (5 km) from the Lincolnshire coast. The civil parish includes the hamlets of Wragholme to the north-west, and Ludney to the south-east. The population of Conisholme is included in the 2011 census. Adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grainthorpe), CC BY-SA 4.0. What is there ## Worth seeing in and around Grainthorpe One place 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. Covenham Reservoir Covenham Reservoir, located in East Lindsey is a 200-acre reservoir and treatment works constructed between 1963 and 1978 by W. & C. French. The reservoir was built next to the Louth Navigation canal and acts as a pumped storage reservoir from the canal, and can be supplemented by transfer schemes from Great Eau and Long Eau rivers. 3.8 km · reservoir in Lincolnshire, England · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Covenham_Reservoir) 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. Go there ## Getting to Grainthorpe **Airports:** East Midlands (EMA), 117 km · Leeds Bradford (LBA), 124 km · Manchester (MAN), 157 km\ - Nottingham, Leicestershire → Grainthorpe 99 km · quickest by road, 1h 58m · £11–14 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/nottingham-leicestershire-to-grainthorpe) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Nottingham%2C+Leicestershire&to=Grainthorpe) - Leeds, West Yorkshire → Grainthorpe 114 km · quickest by road, 2h 2m · £13–18 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/leeds-west-yorkshire-to-grainthorpe) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Leeds%2C+West+Yorkshire&to=Grainthorpe) - Manchester, Greater Manchester → Grainthorpe 153 km · quickest by road, 2h 51m · £19–26 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/manchester-greater-manchester-to-grainthorpe) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Manchester%2C+Greater+Manchester&to=Grainthorpe) - From anywhere The planner compares every way there from wherever you are. [Plan a trip](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=Grainthorpe) Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds. Not yet researched ## No local-transport research exists yet for Grainthorpe 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 Grainthorpe. 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. [Isle of Wight](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/isle-of-wight) GB 11 ways of moving, 22 sources 321 km 2. [Vlieland](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/vlieland) NL 10 ways of moving, 47 sources 326 km 3. [Lundy](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/lundy) GB 7 ways of moving, 11 sources 410 km 4. [Isle of Arran](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/isle-of-arran) GB 10 ways of moving, 36 sources 411 km 5. [Tarbert, Loch Fyne and Kintyre](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/tarbert-loch-fyne) GB 9 ways of moving, 15 sources 443 km If you know how people move in Grainthorpe – the stand, the rule, the fare – [tell us](https://www.mixroutes.com/report?key=blog%7Cgrainthorpe&title=Grainthorpe&sub=Field+notes&back=%2Fnotes%2Fgrainthorpe), and the note gets an entry. Around it ## Next door to Grainthorpe Grainthorpe is 43 km from [Kingston upon Hull](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/kingston-upon-hull), the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture. - [North Somercotes](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/north-somercotes) village and civil parish in Lincolnshire, UK 3.5 km - [Conisholme](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/conisholme) village in Lincolnshire, England, UK 2.6 km - [Marshchapel](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/marshchapel) village and civil parish in East Lindsey, Lincolnshire, UK 3.4 km [The place page for Grainthorpe](https://www.mixroutes.com/places/grainthorpe) [All the notes](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes) [Every note on United Kingdom](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes#c-GB) --- This is the markdown version of https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/grainthorpe, for search crawlers and AI assistants. The HTML page is the canonical copy. Mixroutes is made by Lascade LLC, Sharjah Media City, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. 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