Low Burnham
Low Burnham is a small village in the civil parish of Haxey on the Isle of Axholme in the unitary area of North Lincolnshire in Lincolnshire, England.
Low Burnham is a small village in the civil parish of Haxey on the Isle of Axholme in the unitary area of North Lincolnshire in Lincolnshire, England. The village is located to the south of the market town of Epworth and the north of the town of Haxey. The village is home to a local attraction known as the Holy Well which is a small spring of water believed to date back to when King Oswald was slain. The well holds importance as a historical landmark due to its location at one of the many battlefields of the Battle of Maserfield in 614 A.D. The village is also home to Lower Burnham Mill and the former Burnham Primitive Methodist Church. The hamlet of High Burnham is to the southeast of the village.
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Worth seeing in and around Low Burnham
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.
- 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.
3.2 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.
2.6 km · monastery in Lincolnshire, England · Wikipedia - 03Epworth 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.
1.5 km · clergy building in Epworth, Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom, now historic house museum · Wikipedia
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Getting to Low Burnham
- Airports
- Leeds Bradford (LBA), 68 km · East Midlands (EMA), 83 km · Manchester (MAN), 98 km
- Stations
- Epworth railway station, 2.4 km · Haxey Town railway station, 2.6 km
- Leeds, West Yorkshire → Low Burnham57 km · quickest by road, 1h 22m · £7–9
- Nottingham, Leicestershire → Low Burnham66 km · quickest by road, 1h 55m · £7–9
- Manchester, Greater Manchester → Low Burnham94 km · quickest by road, 2h 28m · £12–16
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No local-transport research exists yet for Low Burnham
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 Low Burnham. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
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Next door to Low Burnham
Low Burnham is 41 km from Kingston upon Hull, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Epworthtown and civil parish in Lincolnshire, England900 m
- Owston Ferryvillage and civil parish in Lincolnshire, England, UK3.1 km
- Haxeyvillage and civil parish in Lincolnshire, England, UK3 km
- Westwoodsidevillage in Lincolnshire, England, UK3.8 km
- Haxey Carrhamlet in Haxey, North Lincolnshire, Lincolnshire, England2.6 km
- High Burnhamhamlet in Haxey, North Lincolnshire, Lincolnshire, England1.1 km