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Village and civil parish in the South Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England · United Kingdom

# South Witham

South Witham is a village and civil parish in the South Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England.

![South Witham](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c8/South_Witham%2C_Lincolnshire%2C_England._Village_shop_c.1911.JPG?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)

South Witham · Unknown photographer

The place

South Witham is a village and civil parish in the South Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 1,533. It is situated 10 miles (16 km) south of Grantham, 10 miles east of Melton Mowbray and 10 miles (16 km) north of Oakham. The village is close to the Leicestershire and Rutland borders.

Adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Witham), CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

## Worth seeing in and around South Witham

One place 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. Church of St Nicholas St Nicholas' Church in Thistleton, Rutland, England, is a former Church of England parish church, now a chapel of ease. It is a Grade II\* listed building. 1.8 km · church in Thistleton, Rutland, United Kingdom · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Nicholas%27_Church,_Thistleton)

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 South Witham

**Airports:** East Midlands (EMA), 48 km · Birmingham (BHX), 83 km · London Luton (LTN), 100 km\
**Stations:** RAF North Witham, 4 km\

- Nottingham, Leicestershire → South Witham 41 km · quickest by road, 55 min · £5–7 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/nottingham-leicestershire-to-south-witham) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Nottingham%2C+Leicestershire&to=South+Witham)
- Birmingham, West Midlands → South Witham 88 km · quickest by road, 1h 47m · £11–14 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/birmingham-west-midlands-to-south-witham) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Birmingham%2C+West+Midlands&to=South+Witham)
- Luton, Luton → South Witham 99 km · quickest by road, 1h 51m · £11–15 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/luton-luton-to-south-witham) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Luton%2C+Luton&to=South+Witham)
- From anywhere The planner compares every way there from wherever you are. [Plan a trip](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=South%20Witham)

Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

Not yet researched

## No local-transport research exists yet for South Witham

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 Witham. 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. [Isle of Wight](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/isle-of-wight) GB 11 ways of moving, 22 sources 235 km
2. [Lundy](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/lundy) GB 7 ways of moving, 11 sources 328 km
3. [Vlieland](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/vlieland) NL 10 ways of moving, 47 sources 379 km
4. [Isle of Arran](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/isle-of-arran) GB 10 ways of moving, 36 sources 429 km
5. [Tarbert, Loch Fyne and Kintyre](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/tarbert-loch-fyne) GB 9 ways of moving, 15 sources 463 km

If you know how people move in South Witham – the stand, the rule, the fare – [tell us](https://www.mixroutes.com/report?key=blog%7Csouth-witham&title=South+Witham&sub=Field+notes&back=%2Fnotes%2Fsouth-witham), and the note gets an entry.

Around it

## Next door to South Witham

South Witham is 37 km from [Leicester](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/leicester), the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

- [Teigh](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/teigh) village in Rutland, England, UK 3.6 km
- [Stretton](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/stretton) village in Rutland, United Kingdom 3.9 km
- [Thistleton](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/thistleton) village and civil parish in Rutland, United Kingdom 1.7 km
- [North Witham](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/north-witham) village in Lincolnshire, UK 2.6 km
- [Gunby](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/gunby) village in South Kesteven, Lincolnshire, United Kingdom 2.9 km
- [Gunby and Stainby](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/gunby-and-stainby) civil parish in South Kesteven 3.4 km

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