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Area of Grimsby, Lincolnshire, England · United Kingdom

Old Clee

Old Clee is located in the Clee Road (A46) and Carr Lane area of eastern Grimsby, North East Lincolnshire, England, and adjoins the neighbouring town of Cleethorpes, to which it has historic links.

The place

Old Clee is located in the Clee Road (A46) and Carr Lane area of eastern Grimsby, North East Lincolnshire, England, and adjoins the neighbouring town of Cleethorpes, to which it has historic links. It is in the Heneage ward of the North East Lincolnshire Unitary Council. Previously a separate village, its parish church of Holy Trinity and Saint Mary, claimed to be the oldest building in Grimsby, has an Anglo-Saxon tower dating from 1050. Located in the area are the Old Clee infants and junior schools and the Havelock Academy. Nearby is the King George V Stadium.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Old Clee

10 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
    Blundell Park

    Blundell Park is a football ground in Cleethorpes, North East Lincolnshire, England and home to Grimsby Town Football Club. The stadium was built in 1899, but only one of the original stands remains.

    1.5 km · football ground in North East Lincolnshire, England · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Grimsby Minster

    Grimsby Minster is a minster and parish church in Grimsby, North East Lincolnshire, England. Dedicated to St James, the church belongs to the Church of England and is within the Diocese of Lincoln.

    2.8 km · church in Grimsby, North East Lincolnshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Grimsby Dock Tower

    Grimsby Dock Tower is a hydraulic accumulator tower and a maritime landmark at the entrance to the Royal Dock, Grimsby, in North East Lincolnshire, England. It was completed on 27 March 1852, based on William Armstrong's idea of the hydraulic accumulator, with the purpose of containing a 30,000-imperial-gallon reservoir at a height of 200 feet, that was used to provide hydraulic power to power the machinery of the Grimsby Docks.

    3.3 km · Grade I listed tower in North East Lincolnshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Pleasure Island Family Theme Park

    Pleasure Island Family Theme Park was a theme park in Cleethorpes, North East Lincolnshire, England. It was commonly known as Pleasure Island.

    3 km · 1993–2016 amusement park in Lincolnshire, England · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    St Mary's Church, Grimsby

    St Mary's Church or its full name St Mary on the Sea Church is a Roman Catholic Parish Church in Grimsby, Lincolnshire. It was built from 1880 to 1883.

    1.9 km · church building in North East Lincolnshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Corporation Bridge

    The Corporation Bridge is a Scherzer rolling lift bascule bridge over the Old Dock in Grimsby, North East Lincolnshire, England. Built in 1925, it replaced an earlier swing bridge dating to 1872.

    2.8 km · Grade II listed bridge in Grimsby, UK · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Grimsby Combined Court Centre

    Grimsby Combined Court Centre is a Crown Court venue which deals with criminal cases, as well as a County Court venue, which deals with civil cases, in Town Hall Square, Grimsby, England.

    2.4 km · judicial building in Grimsby, Lincolnshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Town Hall

    Grimsby Town Hall is a municipal building in Town Hall Square in Grimsby, Lincolnshire, England. The building, which is the meeting place of North East Lincolnshire Council, is a Grade II listed building.

    2.4 km · town hall in North East Lincolnshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Grimsby Fishing Heritage Centre

    The Grimsby Fishing Heritage Centre is a heritage attraction at Alexandra Dock, Grimsby, Lincolnshire, England, opened in 1991. The attraction is an Arts Council England Accredited Museum and holds a number of awards, including the TripAdvisor Hall of Fame, the Sandford Award for Heritage Education and the VisitEngland Quality Rose Marque.

    2.7 km · Maritime museum in Grimsby, England, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    St Augustine of Hippo Grimsby

    The Church of England Parish of St Augustine of Hippo, Grimsby was formed on 14 May 1912 by taking 85 acres from the Parish of St Mary & St James, Grimsby and 255 acres from the Parish of the Holy Trinity and St Mary, Old Clee. It was under the patronage of St Augustine of Hippo.

    2.1 km · church building in North East Lincolnshire, England, UK · Wikipedia

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.

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Getting to Old Clee

Airports
Leeds Bradford (LBA), 112 km · East Midlands (EMA), 117 km · Manchester (MAN), 150 km
Stations
Grimsby Town railway station, 2.7 km · Grimsby Docks railway station, 2.7 km · New Clee railway station, 2.1 km · Cleethorpes railway station, 1.4 km · Grimsby (Corporation Bridge) electric railway station, 2.8 km
  • Leeds, West Yorkshire → Old Clee
    102 km · quickest by road, 1h 41m · £11–15
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Old Clee
    99 km · quickest by road, 1h 54m · £11–14
  • Manchester, Greater Manchester → Old Clee
    145 km · quickest by road, 2h 31m · £17–23
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Old Clee

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 Old Clee. 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

    330 km
  2. 02
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    335 km
  3. 03
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 36 sources

    397 km
  4. 04
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    410 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    429 km

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

Around it

Next door to Old Clee

Old Clee is 28 km from Kingston upon Hull, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

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  • Cleethorpesseaside resort town in North East Lincolnshire, England1.8 km
  • Humberstonvillage in Lincolnshire, England, UK3.5 km
  • New Walthamvillage in Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom3.6 km
  • Scarthosuburban village in North East Lincolnshire, England, UK3.5 km
  • West Marshneighbourhood in Grimsby, Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom3.2 km