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Village and civil parish in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England · United Kingdom

North Thoresby

North Thoresby is a village and civil parish in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England.

North Thoresby
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The place

North Thoresby is a village and civil parish in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. It is situated between Louth and Grimsby, approximately 7.5 miles (12 km) from each. and has a village population of 1,068 (2011) Some 50.5% of the population is older than 60 years.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around North Thoresby

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.

  1. 01
    St Martin's Church

    St Martin's Church is a redundant Anglican church in the village of Waithe, Lincolnshire, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building, and is under the care of the Churches Conservation Trust.

    2.4 km · church in Waithe, Lincolnshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Ludborough railway station

    Ludborough is a heritage railway station in Ludborough, Lincolnshire, England, which is the base of the Lincolnshire Wolds Railway. The station, which was previously part of the East Lincolnshire Railway, closed in 1961 to passengers and 1964 to freight, but was taken over by the preservation society in 1984.

    2.9 km · heritage station in Lincolnshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    North Thoresby railway station

    North Thoresby is a heritage railway station in North Thoresby, Lincolnshire. The station, which was previously part of the East Lincolnshire Railway, closed in 1970, but has since been reopened by the Lincolnshire Wolds Railway.

    900 m · heritage station in Lincolnshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    St Helen's Church, North Thoresby

    St Helen's Church is the Anglican parish church in the village of North Thoresby in Lincolnshire, England. Built of squared limestone rubble, chalk and limestone coursed rubble, the church is a Grade II* listed building with diverse stonework dating from Saxon, Norman, and Elizabethan restorations.

    400 m · church in North Thoresby, Lincolnshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Lincolnshire Wolds Railway

    The Lincolnshire Wolds Railway is a heritage railway based at Ludborough station, near Louth, Lincolnshire, England and the only standard gauge steam railway in Lincolnshire open to the public. The line is part of the original Great Northern Railway, a rail system that opened in 1848 and once linked Grimsby, Louth and East Lincolnshire with London.

    2.9 km · heritage railway in Lincolnshire, England · Wikipedia

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Getting to North Thoresby

Airports
East Midlands (EMA), 110 km · Leeds Bradford (LBA), 115 km · Manchester (MAN), 148 km
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → North Thoresby
    93 km · quickest by road, 1h 47m · £10–14
  • Leeds, West Yorkshire → North Thoresby
    105 km · quickest by road, 1h 52m · £12–16
  • Manchester, Greater Manchester → North Thoresby
    144 km · quickest by road, 2h 42m · £18–25
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for North Thoresby

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inIt's also a base for helicopter transfers to the offshore oil and gas rigs, and for private aviation.

From Wikivoyage: Grimsby, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

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

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    321 km
  2. 02
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    335 km
  3. 03
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 36 sources

    403 km
  4. 04
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    404 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    435 km

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

Around it

Next door to North Thoresby

North Thoresby is 36 km from Kingston upon Hull, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Tetneyvillage in East Lindsey, Lincolnshire, England, UK3.4 km
  • Fulstowvillage in Lincolnshire, England, UK3.5 km
  • Ludboroughvillage in Lincolnshire, England, UK2.9 km
  • Grainsbyhamlet and civil parish in Lincolnshire, United Kingdom1.8 km
  • Wyham cum Cadebycivil parish in Lincolnshire, United Kingdom3.6 km
  • Waithehamlet in Lincolnshire, England2.4 km