--- title: "North Thoresby – what is there, and how you get there | Mixroutes" description: "North Thoresby, United Kingdom: North Thoresby is a village and civil parish in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. Nearby: St Martin's…" url: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/north-thoresby" markdown: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/north-thoresby.md" image: "https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/89/North_Thoresby_Up_platform_in_2018.jpg/1920px-North_Thoresby_Up_platform_in_2018.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail" --- 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](https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/89/North_Thoresby_Up_platform_in_2018.jpg/1920px-North_Thoresby_Up_platform_in_2018.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) North Thoresby · JoshuaIsTheFalco 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Thoresby), 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. 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Martin%27s_Church,_Waithe) 2. 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludborough_railway_station) 3. 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Thoresby_railway_station) 4. 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Helen%27s_Church,_North_Thoresby) 5. 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincolnshire_Wolds_Railway) 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 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 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/nottingham-leicestershire-to-north-thoresby) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Nottingham%2C+Leicestershire&to=North+Thoresby) - Leeds, West Yorkshire → North Thoresby 105 km · quickest by road, 1h 52m · £12–16 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/leeds-west-yorkshire-to-north-thoresby) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Leeds%2C+West+Yorkshire&to=North+Thoresby) - Manchester, Greater Manchester → North Thoresby 144 km · quickest by road, 2h 42m · £18–25 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/manchester-greater-manchester-to-north-thoresby) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Manchester%2C+Greater+Manchester&to=North+Thoresby) - From anywhere The planner compares every way there from wherever you are. [Plan a trip](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=North%20Thoresby) 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 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 in It's also a base for helicopter transfers to the offshore oil and gas rigs, and for private aviation. From [Wikivoyage: Grimsby](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/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. [Isle of Wight](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/isle-of-wight) GB 11 ways of moving, 22 sources 321 km 2. [Vlieland](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/vlieland) NL 10 ways of moving, 47 sources 335 km 3. [Isle of Arran](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/isle-of-arran) GB 10 ways of moving, 36 sources 403 km 4. [Lundy](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/lundy) GB 7 ways of moving, 11 sources 404 km 5. [Tarbert, Loch Fyne and Kintyre](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/tarbert-loch-fyne) GB 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](https://www.mixroutes.com/report?key=blog%7Cnorth-thoresby&title=North+Thoresby&sub=Field+notes&back=%2Fnotes%2Fnorth-thoresby), and the note gets an entry. Around it ## Next door to North Thoresby North Thoresby is 36 km from [Kingston upon Hull](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/kingston-upon-hull), the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture. - [Tetney](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/tetney) village in East Lindsey, Lincolnshire, England, UK 3.4 km - [Fulstow](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/fulstow) village in Lincolnshire, England, UK 3.5 km - [Ludborough](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/ludborough) village in Lincolnshire, England, UK 2.9 km - [Grainsby](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/grainsby) hamlet and civil parish in Lincolnshire, United Kingdom 1.8 km - [Wyham cum Cadeby](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/wyham-cum-cadeby) civil parish in Lincolnshire, United Kingdom 3.6 km - [Waithe](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/waithe) hamlet in Lincolnshire, England 2.4 km [The place page for North Thoresby](https://www.mixroutes.com/places/north-thoresby) [All the notes](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes) [Every note on United Kingdom](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes#c-GB) --- This is the markdown version of https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/north-thoresby, for search crawlers and AI assistants. 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