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Sloothby

Sloothby is a small village in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England.

The place

Sloothby is a small village in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. It is situated approximately 5 miles (8 km) south from the Lincolnshire Wolds, an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. Sloothby is in the civil parish of Willoughby with Sloothby, just over 1 mile (1.6 km) south-east from the village of Willoughby and 7 miles (11 km) north-west from the coastal resort of Skegness. In 1870-72 the township had a population of 242.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Sloothby

2 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
    Hanby Hall

    Hanby Hall is a Grade II* listed early 18th-century building in Alford, Lincolnshire. Hanby Hall was built by John Andrews.

    2.3 km · house in Lincolnshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Church of St Helen

    St Helena's Church, sometimes known as St Helen's Church, is an Anglican church in the village of Willoughby, Lincolnshire, England. It is grade I listed, and dates in part from the 14th century.

    2.4 km · Grade I listed church in Willoughby, 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 Sloothby

Airports
East Midlands (EMA), 113 km · Leeds Bradford (LBA), 145 km · London Stansted (STN), 148 km
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Sloothby
    97 km · quickest by road, 2h 36m · £11–15
  • Leeds, West Yorkshire → Sloothby
    134 km · quickest by road, 2h 47m · £15–20
  • London, Essex → Sloothby
    191 km · quickest by road, 4h 16m · £21–28
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Sloothby

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inThe nearest ferry port to Skegness is King George Dock in Hull.

From Wikivoyage: Skegness, 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

    300 km
  2. 02
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    316 km
  3. 03
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    404 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    436 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    468 km

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

Around it

Next door to Sloothby

  • Orbyvillage and civil parish in Lincolnshire, United Kingdom3.4 km
  • Welton le Marshvillage in Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom3 km
  • Cumberworthvillage and civil parish in Lincolnshire, UK3.1 km
  • Farlesthorpevillage in Lincolnshire, England, UK3.8 km
  • Willoughbyvillage in Lincolnshire, United Kingdom2.2 km
  • Willoughby with Sloothbycivil parish in East Lindsey, Lincolnshire, England2.2 km