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Village and civil parish in the South Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England · United Kingdom

Hough-on-the-Hill

Hough-on-the-Hill is a village and civil parish in the South Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England.

The place

Hough-on-the-Hill is a village and civil parish in the South Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England. The population of the civil parish including Brandon was 399 at the 2011 census. It is situated approximately 7 miles (11 km) due north from the market town of Grantham. The hamlets of Gelston and Brandon are part of the parish. Hough-on-the-Hill is on a significant rise, hence the name.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Hough-on-the-Hill

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 Vincent's Church, Caythorpe

    St Vincent's Church is a Grade I listed Church of England parish church in Caythorpe, Lincolnshire, England. It is at the southern edge of the Lincoln Cliff in South Kesteven, and 10 miles north from Grantham.

    2.5 km · church in Caythorpe, Lincolnshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Caythorpe Court

    Caythorpe Court is a Grade II* listed former hunting lodge situated about one mile to the east of Caythorpe, Lincolnshire, England. It was originally built in 1901 for Edgar Lubbock, a brewer and banker, to the designs of Sir Reginald Blomfield.

    3.6 km · country house in Grantham, Lincolnshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    St Nicholas' Church, Normanton

    St Nicholas Church is a redundant Anglican church in Normanton-on-Cliffe, Lincolnshire, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building, and is under the care of the Churches Conservation Trust.

    2.3 km · Grade II* listed church in Normanton, Lincolnshire, 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 Hough-on-the-Hill

Airports
East Midlands (EMA), 51 km · Birmingham (BHX), 98 km · Manchester (MAN), 117 km
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Hough-on-the-Hill
    36 km · quickest by road, 1h 18m · £5–7
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Hough-on-the-Hill
    104 km · quickest by road, 2h 38m · £13–17
  • Manchester, Greater Manchester → Hough-on-the-Hill
    120 km · quickest by road, 2h 52m · £14–19
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Hough-on-the-Hill

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 Hough-on-the-Hill. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Go nextDirect trains to London mean that the capital is in easy reach for a day trip or to continue your travels.

From Wikivoyage: East Midlands, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2025-06.

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

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    262 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    343 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    375 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    409 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    443 km

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

Around it

Next door to Hough-on-the-Hill

Hough-on-the-Hill is 36 km from Nottingham, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.