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Harby

Harby is a village and civil parish in the Newark and Sherwood district of Nottinghamshire, England.

The place

Harby is a village and civil parish in the Newark and Sherwood district of Nottinghamshire, England. It is close to Doddington, Lincolnshire, and is the easternmost settlement in Nottinghamshire, the boundary separating the two. According to the 2011 census, it had a population of 336, up from 289 at the 2001 census. It increased to 346 at the 2021 census.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Harby

3 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
    St Helen's Church, Thorney

    St Helen's Church is a Grade II* listed parish church in the Church of England in Thorney, Nottinghamshire.

    3 km · church in Newark and Sherwood, Nottinghamshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Doddington Hall

    Doddington Hall is, from the outside, an Elizabethan prodigy house or mansion complete with walled courtyards and a gabled gatehouse. Inside it was largely updated in the 1760s.

    2.1 km · country house in Lincolnshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    All Saints' Church, Harby

    All Saints' Church, Harby is a Grade II listed parish church in the Church of England in Harby, Nottinghamshire.

    200 m · grade II listed church in Harby, Newark and Sherwood, Nottinghamshire, England, UK · 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 Harby

Airports
East Midlands (EMA), 62 km · Leeds Bradford (LBA), 96 km · Manchester (MAN), 107 km
Stations
RAF Wigsley, 3.2 km
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Harby
    19 km · quickest by road, 46 min · £2–3
  • Leeds, West Yorkshire → Harby
    111 km · quickest by road, 2h 30m · £13–17
  • Manchester, Greater Manchester → Harby
    112 km · quickest by road, 3h 26m · £13–17
  • From anywhere
    The planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Harby

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 Harby. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get aroundThe medieval spine of town isn't suitable for anything more elaborate than a pack-mule or hand-cart.

From Wikivoyage: Lincoln, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

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

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    285 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    354 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    377 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    389 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    423 km

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

Around it

Next door to Harby

Harby is 43 km from Nottingham, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Thorneyvillage and civil parish in Nottinghamshire, England3.3 km
  • Broadholmevillage in Lincolnshire, England, UK3.8 km
  • Wigsleyvillage in Nottinghamshire, England, UK1.9 km
  • Doddingtonvillage in Lincolnshire, England, UK2.1 km
  • Eaglevillage in Lincolnshire, England, UK3.6 km
  • Drinsey Nookvillage in Lincolnshire, England, UK3.8 km