Owston Ferry
Owston Ferry is a village and civil parish in North Lincolnshire, England.
Owston Ferry is a village and civil parish in North Lincolnshire, England. It is situated on the west bank of the River Trent, and 9 miles (14 km) north from Gainsborough. It had a total resident population of 1,128 in 2001 including Kelfield. This increased to 1,328 at the 2011 census. Sometimes referred to as Owston or Ferry, the village forms part of the Isle of Axholme. It is bounded to the west by the A161 road and the town of Haxey. The River Trent is directly to the east. To the north, beyond a number of hamlets and villages, lies the Humber estuary. West Butterwick was originally a part of the township of Owston.
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Worth seeing in and around Owston Ferry
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.
- 01Owston Ferry Castle
Owston Ferry Castle was in the village of Owston Ferry in Lincolnshire, England. It is thought that the original castle on this site was erected soon after the Norman Conquest but that it was dismantled in 1095.
300 m · motte-and-bailey castle in Owston Ferry, North Lincolnshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 02Axholme Charterhouse
Axholme Charterhouse or Axholme Priory, also Melwood Priory or Low Melwood Priory, North Lincolnshire, is one of the ten medieval Carthusian houses in England. It was established in 1397/1398 by Thomas Mowbray, Earl of Nottingham and later Duke of Norfolk.
1.4 km · monastery in Lincolnshire, England · Wikipedia - 03Epworth Old Rectory
The Old Rectory in Epworth, Lincolnshire is a Queen Anne-style building, rebuilt in 1709, which has been restored and is now the property of the Methodist Church of Great Britain, who maintain it as a museum. The rectory was home to the rector of Epworth from 1697 to 1735, the Reverend Samuel Wesley, his wife Susanna and their 19 children, one of whom, John Wesley, grew up to become a founder of Methodism.
3.7 km · clergy building in Epworth, Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom, now historic house museum · Wikipedia
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Getting to Owston Ferry
- Airports
- Leeds Bradford (LBA), 71 km · East Midlands (EMA), 82 km · Manchester (MAN), 100 km
- Stations
- Haxey Town railway station, 3.5 km
- Leeds, West Yorkshire → Owston Ferry61 km · quickest by road, 1h 31m · £7–10
- Nottingham, Leicestershire → Owston Ferry65 km · quickest by road, 1h 56m · £7–9
- Manchester, Greater Manchester → Owston Ferry96 km · quickest by road, 2h 37m · £13–17
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No local-transport research exists yet for Owston Ferry
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 Owston Ferry. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
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Next door to Owston Ferry
Owston Ferry is 41 km from Kingston upon Hull, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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