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Johnby

Johnby is a hamlet in the Westmorland and Furness district, in the English county of Cumbria.

The place

Johnby is a hamlet in the Westmorland and Furness district, in the English county of Cumbria. It is about 6 miles (9.7 km) from the large town of Penrith and about 1 mile (1.6 km) from the village of Greystoke. The B5305 road, the B5288 road, the A66 road and the M6 motorway are all nearby. Circa 1870, it had a population of 92 as recorded in the Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales.

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What is there

Worth seeing in and around Johnby

2 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
    Hutton in the Forest

    Hutton in the Forest is a Grade I listed country house near the village of Skelton in the historic county of Cumberland, which now forms part of the modern county of Cumbria, England. It belonged to the Fletcher-Vane family from 1605 until 1931, when it became the property of the Barons Inglewood who were distant relatives of the Fletcher-Vane family.

    3.9 km · country house in Cumbria, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Johnby Hall

    Johnby Hall is a fortified manor house near Greystoke, Cumbria. It was built in 1583, incorporating the fabric of a medieval tower house, and has been extended and modified a number of times since then.

    100 m · manor house in Greystoke, Cumbria, England, UK · Wikipedia

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Getting to Johnby

Airports
Newcastle (NCL), 85 km · Leeds Bradford (LBA), 121 km · Isle of Man (IOM), 131 km
  • Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear → Johnby
    87 km · quickest by road, 2h 23m · £11–15
  • Leeds, West Yorkshire → Johnby
    132 km · quickest by road, 2h 52m · £17–23
  • Prestwick, South Ayrshire → Johnby
    142 km · quickest by road, 3h 13m · £17–23
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Johnby

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 Johnby. 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 ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    174 km
  2. 02
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    207 km
  3. 03
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    235 km
  4. 04
    Isle of CollGB

    7 ways of moving, 16 sources

    316 km
  5. 05
    The Small Isles - Eigg, Muck, Rum and CannaGB

    9 ways of moving, 20 sources

    333 km

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

Around it

Next door to Johnby

  • Skeltonvillage in Cumbria, England2.5 km
  • Greystokevillage and civil parish in Cumbria, England2.1 km
  • Blencowvillage in Cumbria, United Kingdom3 km
  • Ellonbyhamlet in Cumbria, England, UK1.4 km
  • Lamonbyhamlet in Cumbria, England, UK3.8 km
  • Little Blencowhamlet in Cumbria, England1.9 km