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Pilsgate

Pilsgate is a hamlet and former civil parish, now in the parish of Barnack, in the Peterborough district, in the ceremonial county of Cambridgeshire, England.

The place

Pilsgate is a hamlet and former civil parish, now in the parish of Barnack, in the Peterborough district, in the ceremonial county of Cambridgeshire, England. Pilsgate is close to the county boundary and 3 miles (5 km) south-east of Stamford, Lincolnshire. In 1881 the parish had a population of 125.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Pilsgate

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
    Burghley House

    Burghley House is a grand 16th-century English country house near Stamford, Lincolnshire. It is a leading example of the Elizabethan prodigy house, built and still lived in by the senior branch of the Cecil family and is Grade I listed.

    1.9 km · grand sixteenth-century country house near Stamford, Lincolnshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    St Martin's Church, Stamford

    St Martin's Church, Stamford, is a Grade I listed parish church in the Church of England located in Stamford, Lincolnshire, England. The area of the town south of the River Welland was in Northamptonshire until 1889 and is called Stamford Baron or St Martin's.

    3.6 km · church in Stamford, Lincolnshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    St George's Church, Stamford

    St George's Church is a Grade I listed building in Stamford, Lincolnshire, England.

    3.7 km · church in Stamford, Lincolnshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    St John the Baptist's Church, Stamford

    St John the Baptist's Church is a redundant Anglican church in the centre of the town of Stamford, 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.

    3.9 km · church in Stamford, Lincolnshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Walcot Hall

    Walcot Hall is a Grade I listed Carolean country house in the civil parish of Southorpe, Cambridgeshire, England. It lies 2 km south east of the village of Barnack.

    1.9 km · Grade I listed country house in Southorpe, Cambridgeshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    St John the Baptist's Church, Barnack

    The Church of St John the Baptist, Barnack is a Church of England parish church in the village of Barnack, now in the City of Peterborough unitary authority area of the ceremonial county of Cambridgeshire, England.

    1.4 km · Grade I listed church in Barnack, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Stamford University

    The University of Stamford was an academic institution founded in 1333 in Stamford, Lincolnshire, by a group of students and tutors from the University of Oxford, including Merton College and Brasenose Hall. After lobbying by the University of Oxford, King Edward III suppressed the institution in 1335 and the tutors and scholars were returned to Oxford.

    3.7 km · English university, 1333-35 · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    New College Stamford

    Stamford College is a further education college on Drift Road in Stamford, Lincolnshire, England. It opened as Stamford Technical College in 1967 and was later called New College Stamford, becoming Stamford College in 2020.

    3.8 km · college in Lincolnshire, UK · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    St Mary's Church, Stamford

    St Mary's Church, Stamford is a parish church of the Church of England, located in Stamford, Lincolnshire. It lends its name to St Mary's Hill on which it stands, and which runs down to the river crossing opposite The George Hotel.

    3.8 km · church in Stamford, Lincolnshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Southorpe Roughs

    Southorpe Roughs is a 9.8-hectare Site of Special Scientific Interest west of Southorpe in Cambridgeshire. This is a disused quarry which has grassland on Jurassic limestone.

    2.6 km · UK Site of Special Scientific Interest · Wikipedia

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Getting to Pilsgate

Airports
East Midlands (EMA), 64 km · London Luton (LTN), 85 km · Birmingham (BHX), 92 km
Stations
Stamford railway station, 3.8 km · Uffington and Barnack railway station, 1.2 km · Barnack railway station, 1.7 km · Bainton Gate railway station, 2.9 km
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Pilsgate
    60 km · quickest by road, 1h 35m · £7–9
  • Luton, Luton → Pilsgate
    84 km · quickest by road, 2h 14m · £10–13
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Pilsgate
    101 km · quickest by road, 2h 24m · £11–15
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Pilsgate

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 Pilsgate. 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

    225 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    333 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    369 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    448 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    483 km

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

Around it

Next door to Pilsgate

Pilsgate is 48 km from Leicester, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Barnackvillage in Cambridgeshire, England, UK1.4 km
  • Uffordvillage and civil parish in Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, England, UK3.2 km
  • Baintonvillage and civil parish in Cambridgeshire, England, UK3.1 km
  • Witteringvillage and civil parish in Cambridgeshire, UK3.2 km
  • St Martin's Withoutcivil parish in Cambridgeshire, UK2.5 km
  • Tallingtonvillage in Lincolnshire, UK3.8 km