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South Kesteven

South Kesteven is a local government district in Lincolnshire, England, forming part of the traditional Kesteven division of the county.

South Kesteven
South Kesteven · Wikimedia Commons
The place

South Kesteven is a local government district in Lincolnshire, England, forming part of the traditional Kesteven division of the county. Its council is based in Grantham. The district also includes the towns of Bourne, Market Deeping and Stamford, along with numerous villages and surrounding rural areas.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around South Kesteven

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.

  1. 01
    Grimsthorpe Castle

    Grimsthorpe Castle is a country house in Lincolnshire, England 4 miles north-west of Bourne on the A151. It lies within a 3,000 acre park of rolling pastures, lakes, and woodland landscaped by Capability Brown.

    3.3 km · country house in Lincolnshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    St John the Evangelist's Church, Corby Glen

    The Church of St John the Evangelist is a Grade I listed Church of England parish church dedicated to John the Evangelist, in Corby Glen, Lincolnshire, England. The church is 9 miles south-east of Grantham, and in the South Kesteven Lincolnshire Vales.

    1.8 km · Grade I listed church in Corby Glen, Lincolnshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Vaudey Abbey

    Vaudey Abbey, also known as Vandy Abbey or Vandey Abbey, was an English Cistercian abbey. It was founded in 1147 by William, Count of Aumale, Earl of York.

    3.1 km · Cistercian abbey in Edenham, Lincolnshire, England, UK · Wikipedia

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Go there

Getting to South Kesteven

Airports
East Midlands (EMA), 56 km · Birmingham (BHX), 93 km · London Luton (LTN), 103 km
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → South Kesteven
    45 km · quickest by road, 1h 20m · £5–7
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → South Kesteven
    103 km · quickest by road, 2h 40m · £12–16
  • Luton, Luton → South Kesteven
    108 km · quickest by road, 2h 52m · £12–16
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for South Kesteven

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 South Kesteven. 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

    241 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    338 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    370 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    432 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    466 km

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

Around it

Next door to South Kesteven

South Kesteven is 46 km from Leicester, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Corby Glenvillage and civil parish in South Kesteven, Lincolnshire, England1.9 km
  • Edenhamvillage and civil parish in South Kesteven, Lincolnshire, England3.8 km
  • Burton Cogglesvillage and civil parish in Lincolnshire, England, UK3.9 km
  • Irnhamvillage in South Kesteven, Lincolnshire, England3.5 km
  • Swinsteadvillage in Lincolnshire, UK1.2 km
  • Swayfieldvillage in Lincolnshire, England2 km