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Hamlet in the South Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England · United Kingdom

Stainby

Stainby is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Gunby and Stainby, in the South Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England.

The place

Stainby is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Gunby and Stainby, in the South Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England. It is situated 2 miles (3.2 km) west from the A1 road, 1.5 miles (2.4 km) east from the Viking Way and the Leicestershire border, and 8 miles (13 km) south from Grantham. In 1921 the parish had a population of 117.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Stainby

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
    Woolsthorpe Manor

    Woolsthorpe Manor in Woolsthorpe-by-Colsterworth, near Grantham, Lincolnshire, England, is the birthplace and family home of Sir Isaac Newton. In the orchard within the grounds is Newton's famous apple tree.

    2.1 km · country house in Woolsthorpe-by-Colsterworth, Lincolnshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Church of St John the Baptist

    The Church of St John the Baptist is a church in Buckminster, Leicestershire. It is a Grade I listed building.

    2.9 km · church in Buckminster, Leicestershire, England, UK · Wikipedia

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Getting to Stainby

Airports
East Midlands (EMA), 45 km · Birmingham (BHX), 83 km · London Luton (LTN), 104 km
Stations
RAF North Witham, 3.8 km
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Stainby
    38 km · quickest by road, 52 min · £5–6
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Stainby
    87 km · quickest by road, 1h 41m · £11–14
  • Luton, Luton → Stainby
    103 km · quickest by road, 1h 55m · £12–15
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Stainby

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 Stainby. 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

    239 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    329 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    380 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 36 sources

    425 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    459 km

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

Around it

Next door to Stainby

Stainby is 37 km from Leicester, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.