Smisby
Smisby is an ancient manor, civil parish and small village in South Derbyshire, England.
Smisby is an ancient manor, civil parish and small village in South Derbyshire, England.
It is 4 miles (6.4 km) from Melbourne and near the Leicestershire border and the town of Ashby-de-la-Zouch. The village including the outlying farms and houses has a population just over 200 that occupies some 110 properties. The population at the 2011 Census had increased to 260.
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Worth seeing in and around Smisby
9 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.
- 01Ashby de la Zouch Castle
Ashby de la Zouch Castle is a ruined fortification in the town of Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Leicestershire, England. The castle was built by William, Lord Hastings, a favourite of Edward IV, after 1473, accompanied by the creation of a 3,000-acre park.
3.2 km · Grade I listed ruins in Ashby-de-la-Zouch, United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 02Church of St James
St James’ Church, Smisby is a Grade I listed parish church in the Church of England in Smisby, Derbyshire.
300 m · church in Smisby, Derbyshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 03St Stephen's Church, Woodville
St Stephen's Church, Woodville is a Grade II listed parish church in the Church of England in Woodville, Derbyshire.
3.1 km · church building in Woodville, South Derbyshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 04Holy Trinity Church
Holy Trinity, Ashby-de-la-Zouch, is a parish church in the Church of England Diocese of Leicester in Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Leicestershire.
2.9 km · church in Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Leicestershire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 05St Helen's Church, Ashby-de-la-Zouch
St Helen's Church is the Anglican parish church of Ashby-de-la-Zouch, in the deanery of North West Leicestershire and the Diocese of Leicester. There was a church in the town in the 11th century, but the core of the present building mainly dates from work started in 1474, when the church was rebuilt by the 1st Baron Hastings at the same time that he converted his neighbouring manor house into a castle.
3 km · church in North West Leicestershire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 06Staunton Harold Hall
Staunton Harold Hall is a large 18th-century Grade I listed country house built by the Earls Ferrers, situated within the 2,000-acre Staunton Harold Park in Staunton Harold, Leicestershire, England, which includes the 17th-century Grade I listed Holy Trinity Chapel.
3.8 km · Grade I listed building in North West Leicestershire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 07Parish Church of St Margaret of Antioch
The Church of St Margaret of Antioch is a church in Blackfordby, Leicestershire. It is a Grade II listed building.
1.8 km · church in Blackfordby, Leicestershire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 08Town Hall
Ashby-de-la-Zouch Town Hall is a municipal building in Market Street in Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Leicestershire, England. The structure, which was used as the offices of Ashby-de-la-Zouch Urban District Council, is a Grade II listed building.
2.9 km · town hall in Ashby-de-la-Zouch, North West Leicestershire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 09Dimminsdale
Dimminsdale is a 37 hectare geological and biological Site of Special Scientific Interest partly in Derbyshire and partly in Leicestershire. It is located east of Calke in Derbyshire.
3.9 km · UK Site of Special Scientific Interest · Wikipedia
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Getting to Smisby
- Airports
- East Midlands (EMA), 13 km · Birmingham (BHX), 39 km · Manchester (MAN), 83 km
- Stations
- Woodville railway station, 2.5 km
- Manchester, Greater Manchester → Smisby94 km · quickest by road, 2h 43m · £12–16
- Liverpool → Smisby123 km · quickest by road, 2h 30m · £14–18
- London → Smisby168 km · quickest by road, 3h 9m · £17–23
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Smisby
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 Smisby. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inThe airport mainly supports low-cost airlines such as Jet2.com, Ryanair and tour operators like Thomson Airways which serve a range of domestic and European short-haul destinations.
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Next door to Smisby
Smisby is 28 km from Leicester, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Ashby-de-la-Zouchtown in Leicestershire, England2.8 km
- Woodvillevillage and civil parish in South Derbyshire district, Derbyshire, England2.9 km
- Hartshornevillage and civil parish in South Derbyshire, Derbyshire, England3.2 km
- Calkevillage and civil parish in South Derbyshire, Derbyshire, England4 km
- Ashby Wouldsvillage and civil parish in Leicestershire, England, UK3.8 km
- Blackfordbyvillage in Leicestershire, England, UK2 km