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Redmile

Redmile is an English village and civil parish in the Melton district of Leicestershire, about ten miles (16 km) north of Melton Mowbray and seven miles (11 km) west of Grantham.

Redmile
Redmile · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Redmile is an English village and civil parish in the Melton district of Leicestershire, about ten miles (16 km) north of Melton Mowbray and seven miles (11 km) west of Grantham. The population of the civil parish, which includes Barkestone-le-Vale and Plungar, was 921 at the 2011 census, up from 829 in 2001.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Redmile

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. 01
    Belvoir Castle

    Belvoir Castle is a faux historic castle and stately home in Leicestershire, England, situated 6 mi west of the town of Grantham and 10 mi northeast of Melton Mowbray. A castle was first built on the site immediately after the Norman Conquest of 1066 and has since been rebuilt at least three times.

    2.9 km · historic house museum and home of the Dukes of Rutland in Leicestershire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    St Mary the Virgin's Church, Bottesford

    St Mary the Virgin's Church is in the village of Bottesford, Leicestershire, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Framland, the archdeaconry of Leicester and the diocese of Leicester.

    3.8 km · Grade I listed church in Bottesford, Melton, Leicestershire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Church of St Peter and St Paul

    The Church of St Peter and St Paul is a church in Barkestone-le-Vale, Leicestershire, England. It is a Grade II* listed building.

    2 km · church in Barkestone, Leicestershire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Muston Meadows

    Muston Meadows is an 8.8-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest south of Muston in Leicestershire. It is also a National Nature Reserve and a Nature Conservation Review site.

    2.9 km · Site of Special Scientific Interest in Leicestershire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Grantham Canal SSSI

    Grantham Canal SSSI is a 9.5-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest which runs along a stretch of the Grantham Canal and its banks between Redmile and Harby in Leicestershire. This site has diverse aquatic and terrestrial habitats, which supports a varied insect community.

    3.9 km · UK Site of Special Scientific Interest · 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.

Go there

Getting to Redmile

Airports
East Midlands (EMA), 36 km · Birmingham (BHX), 81 km · Manchester (MAN), 109 km
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Redmile
    86 km · quickest by road, 2h 7m · £10–13
  • Manchester, Greater Manchester → Redmile
    114 km · quickest by road, 3h 2m · £14–19
  • Luton, Luton → Redmile
    117 km · quickest by road, 2h 31m · £15–20
  • From anywhere
    The planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Redmile

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Go nextDirect trains to London mean that the capital is in easy reach for a day trip or to continue your travels.

From Wikivoyage: East Midlands, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2025-06.

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

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    249 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    326 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    389 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    408 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    443 km

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

Around it

Next door to Redmile

Redmile is 23 km from Nottingham, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Bottesfordvillage and civil parish in Leicestershire, UK3.1 km
  • Belvoirvillage and civil parish in Leicestershire, UK3.8 km
  • Barkestone-le-Valevillage in Leicestershire, United Kingdom1.9 km
  • Plungarvillage in Leicestershire, UK3.3 km
  • Mustonvillage in Leicestershire, United Kingdom4 km