Spilsby

Worth seeing in and around Spilsby

4 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
   Bolingbroke Castle

   Bolingbroke Castle is a ruined castle in Bolingbroke in Lincolnshire, England.

   5.1 km · castle in Bolingbroke, England · Wikipedia
2. 02
   Chapel at Raithby Hall

   The small Methodist chapel at Raithby Hall in Raithby by Spilsby is the oldest Methodist chapel in Lincolnshire, and one of the oldest in England. It is one of the few surviving chapels that was opened by John Wesley, the founding father of Methodism, and is still in use today.

   2.8 km · Grade I listed chapel in Raithby by Spilsby, Lincolnshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
3. 03
   Old All Saints Church, Great Steeping

   Old All Saints Church is a redundant Anglican church in the village of Great Steeping, Lincolnshire, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building, and is under the care of the Churches Conservation Trust.

   4 km · church in Great Steeping, Lincolnshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
4. 04
   Former Market Hall

   The Old Town Hall is a municipal building in the High Street in Spilsby, Lincolnshire, England. The structure, which accommodates some shops and a petrol filling station, is a Grade II listed building.

   200 m · building in Spilsby, East Lindsey, Lincolnshire, England, UK · Wikipedia

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What Wikivoyage says to see

1. 01
   Statue of John Franklin

   This statue commemorates the Voyages of John Franklin, a Splisby native who was a British Royal Navy officer, explorer of Arctic North America, and Lieutenant-Governor of Tasmania.

2. 02
   Gunby Hall and Gardens

   Gunby, Spilsby, PE23 5SS, gunbyhall@nationaltrust.org.uk.

3. 03
   Bolingbroke Castle

   Near Spilsby features the besieged remains of a 13th-century castle which was the birthplace of King Henry IV in 1366.

4. 04
   Lincolnshire Aviation Heritage Centre

   Is on the site of the former RAF East Kirkby near Spilsby.

5. 05
   Snipe Dales

From Wikivoyage: Spilsby, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Getting to Spilsby

Airports

East Midlands (EMA), 102 km · Leeds Bradford (LBA), 139 km · London Stansted (STN), 144 km

Stations

RAF Spilsby, 5.2 km

• Nottingham, Leicestershire → Spilsby

  87 km · quickest by road, 1h 45m · £10–13
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• Leeds, West Yorkshire → Spilsby

  129 km · quickest by road, 2h 18m · £15–20
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• London → Spilsby

  186 km · quickest by road, 3h 21m · £20–26
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No local-transport research exists yet for Spilsby

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

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