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

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.
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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.
- 01Owston 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 - 02Axholme 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 - 03All 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 - 04Epworth 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 - 05St 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
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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 → Haxey58 km · quickest by road, 1h 26m · £7–10
- Nottingham, Leicestershire → Haxey63 km · quickest by road, 1h 51m · £6–9
- Manchester, Greater Manchester → Haxey92 km · quickest by road, 2h 33m · £13–17
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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.
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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