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Hamlet in the district of East Lindsey, Lincolnshire, England · United Kingdom

# Monksthorpe

Monksthorpe is a hamlet in the district of East Lindsey, Lincolnshire, England.

The place

Monksthorpe is a hamlet in the district of East Lindsey, Lincolnshire, England. It lies 3 miles (5 km) east from the town of Spilsby and north from the village of Great Steeping.

Adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monksthorpe), CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

## Worth seeing in and around Monksthorpe

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. Gunby Hall Gunby Hall is a country house in Gunby, near Spilsby, in Lincolnshire, England, reached by a one-half-mile-long private drive. The Estate comprises the 42-room Gunby Hall, listed Grade I, a clocktower, listed Grade II\* and a carriage house and stable block which are listed Grade II. In 1944 the trustees of the Gunby Hall Estate, Lady Montgomery-Massingberd, Major Norman Leith-Hay-Clarke and Field Marshal Sir Archibald Montgomery-Massingberd, gave the house to the National Trust together with its contents and some 1,500 acres of land. 2.7 km · Grade I listed English country house in East Lindsey, United Kingdom · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunby_Hall)
2. Old All Saints Church, Great Steeping Old All Saints Church is a redundant Anglican church in the village of Great Steeping, 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. 1.7 km · church in Great Steeping, Lincolnshire, England, UK · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_All_Saints_Church,_Great_Steeping)

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 Monksthorpe

**Airports:** East Midlands (EMA), 106 km · London Stansted (STN), 143 km · Leeds Bradford (LBA), 143 km\
**Stations:** RAF Spilsby, 800 m\

- Nottingham, Leicestershire → Monksthorpe 91 km · quickest by road, 1h 55m · £11–14 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/nottingham-leicestershire-to-monksthorpe) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Nottingham%2C+Leicestershire&to=Monksthorpe)
- London, Essex → Monksthorpe 186 km · quickest by road, 3h 31m · £20–27 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/london-essex-to-monksthorpe) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=London%2C+Essex&to=Monksthorpe)
- Leeds, West Yorkshire → Monksthorpe 133 km · quickest by road, 2h 27m · £15–20 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/leeds-west-yorkshire-to-monksthorpe) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Leeds%2C+West+Yorkshire&to=Monksthorpe)
- From anywhere The planner compares every way there from wherever you are. [Plan a trip](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=Monksthorpe)

Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

Not yet researched

## No local-transport research exists yet for Monksthorpe

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 Monksthorpe. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around

- Get in The nearest ferry port to Skegness is King George Dock in Hull.

From [Wikivoyage: Skegness](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Skegness), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done

1. [Isle of Wight](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/isle-of-wight) GB 11 ways of moving, 22 sources 293 km
2. [Vlieland](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/vlieland) NL 10 ways of moving, 47 sources 321 km
3. [Lundy](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/lundy) GB 7 ways of moving, 11 sources 397 km
4. [Isle of Arran](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/isle-of-arran) GB 10 ways of moving, 36 sources 435 km
5. [Tarbert, Loch Fyne and Kintyre](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/tarbert-loch-fyne) GB 9 ways of moving, 15 sources 468 km

If you know how people move in Monksthorpe – the stand, the rule, the fare – [tell us](https://www.mixroutes.com/report?key=blog%7Cmonksthorpe&title=Monksthorpe&sub=Field+notes&back=%2Fnotes%2Fmonksthorpe), and the note gets an entry.

Around it

## Next door to Monksthorpe

- [Halton Holegate](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/halton-holegate) village and civil parish in Lincolnshire, UK 2.7 km
- [Great Steeping](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/great-steeping) village in Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom 1.1 km
- [Firsby](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/firsby) village in Lincolnshire, England, UK 2.4 km
- [Little Steeping](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/little-steeping) village and civil parish in Lincolnshire, UK 2.7 km
- [Bratoft](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/bratoft) hamlet in Lincolnshire, England 2.9 km
- [Irby in the Marsh](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/irby-in-the-marsh) village and civil parish in Lincolnshire, United Kingdom 2.9 km

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