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Old Somerby

Old Somerby is a village and civil parish in the South Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England, 3 miles (5 km) south-east of Grantham.

Old Somerby
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The place

Old Somerby is a village and civil parish in the South Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England, 3 miles (5 km) south-east of Grantham. It lies on the B1176 road, with the village centre about 1 mile (1.6 km) east of its junction with the A52 and B6403, and adjacent to the East Coast Main Line.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Old Somerby

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.

  1. 01
    St Peter's Church, Ropsley

    St Peter's Church is a Grade I listed Anglican parish church dedicated to Saint Peter, in Ropsley, Lincolnshire, England. The church is 5 miles east from Grantham, and in the South Kesteven Lincolnshire Vales.

    3.4 km · church in Ropsley, Lincolnshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Church of St Mary Magdalene

    The Church of St Mary Magdalene is a Church of England parish church at Old Somerby in the English county of Lincolnshire. Of 12th century origins with later medieval additions, it was restored in the 18th and 19th centuries.

    700 m · church in Old Somerby, Lincolnshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Harrowby Hall

    Harrowby Hall is a Grade II* listed building in Harrowby, Lincolnshire, England. The Hall was the family home of the Ryder family and the former home of Nathaniel Ryder, 1st Baron Harrowby.

    3.4 km · grade II* listed building in Harrowby, 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 Somerby

Airports
East Midlands (EMA), 51 km · Birmingham (BHX), 93 km · London Luton (LTN), 114 km
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Old Somerby
    39 km · quickest by road, 1h 7m · £4–6
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Old Somerby
    100 km · quickest by road, 2h 27m · £11–15
  • Luton, Luton → Old Somerby
    113 km · quickest by road, 2h 42m · £13–17
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Old Somerby

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

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

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    250 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    339 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    373 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    421 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    455 km

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

Around it

Next door to Old Somerby

Old Somerby is 39 km from Nottingham, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.