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Haxey

Haxey is a town and civil parish on the Isle of Axholme in the North Lincolnshire unitary authority of Lincolnshire, England.

Haxey
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The place

Haxey is a town and civil parish on the Isle of Axholme in the North Lincolnshire unitary authority of Lincolnshire, England. It is directly south of Epworth, south-west of Scunthorpe, north-west of Gainsborough, east of Doncaster and north-north-west of Lincoln, with a population of 4,584 at the 2011 census. The town was regarded as the historic capital of the Isle of Axholme.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Haxey

5 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
    Owston Ferry Castle

    Owston Ferry Castle was in the village of Owston Ferry in Lincolnshire, England. It is thought that the original castle on this site was erected soon after the Norman Conquest but that it was dismantled in 1095.

    3.9 km · motte-and-bailey castle in Owston Ferry, North Lincolnshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Axholme Charterhouse

    Axholme Charterhouse or Axholme Priory, also Melwood Priory or Low Melwood Priory, North Lincolnshire, is one of the ten medieval Carthusian houses in England. It was established in 1397/1398 by Thomas Mowbray, Earl of Nottingham and later Duke of Norfolk.

    4.6 km · monastery in Lincolnshire, England · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    All Saints' Church, Misterton

    All Saints' Church is a Grade I listed Church of England parish church in Misterton, Nottinghamshire, England. The dedication of the church is to All Saints.

    4.7 km · church in Bassetlaw, Nottinghamshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Epworth Old Rectory

    The Old Rectory in Epworth, Lincolnshire is a Queen Anne-style building, rebuilt in 1709, which has been restored and is now the property of the Methodist Church of Great Britain, who maintain it as a museum. The rectory was home to the rector of Epworth from 1697 to 1735, the Reverend Samuel Wesley, his wife Susanna and their 19 children, one of whom, John Wesley, grew up to become a founder of Methodism.

    4.5 km · clergy building in Epworth, Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom, now historic house museum · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    St Mary the Virgin's Church, West Stockwith

    St Mary the Virgin's Church, West Stockwith is a Grade II* listed parish church in the Church of England in West Stockwith, Nottinghamshire, England.

    5.3 km · church in West Stockwith, Bassetlaw, 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.

Go there

Getting to Haxey

Airports
Leeds Bradford (LBA), 68 km · East Midlands (EMA), 80 km · Manchester (MAN), 96 km
Stations
Epworth railway station, 5 km · Haxey Junction railway station, 2.2 km · Haxey Town railway station, 600 m
  • Leeds, West Yorkshire → Haxey
    58 km · quickest by road, 1h 26m · £7–10
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Haxey
    63 km · quickest by road, 1h 51m · £6–9
  • Manchester, Greater Manchester → Haxey
    92 km · quickest by road, 2h 33m · £13–17
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Haxey

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 Haxey. 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

    313 km
  2. 02
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    361 km
  3. 03
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    365 km
  4. 04
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    387 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    395 km

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

Around it

Next door to Haxey

Haxey is 43 km from Sheffield, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Epworthtown and civil parish in Lincolnshire, England3.9 km
  • Owston Ferryvillage and civil parish in Lincolnshire, England, UK4.1 km
  • East Stockwithvillage and civil parish in Lincolnshire, UK5.8 km
  • East Ferryvillage in Lincolnshire, England, UK4.8 km
  • Mistertonvillage and civil parish in the Bassetlaw district of Nottinghamshire, England4.7 km
  • West Stockwithvillage in Nottinghamshire, England, UK5.3 km