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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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stainby), 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. 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woolsthorpe_Manor)
2. 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_St_John_the_Baptist,_Buckminster)

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 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 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/nottingham-leicestershire-to-stainby) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Nottingham%2C+Leicestershire&to=Stainby)
- Birmingham, West Midlands → Stainby 87 km · quickest by road, 1h 41m · £11–14 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/birmingham-west-midlands-to-stainby) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Birmingham%2C+West+Midlands&to=Stainby)
- Luton, Luton → Stainby 103 km · quickest by road, 1h 55m · £12–15 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/luton-luton-to-stainby) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Luton%2C+Luton&to=Stainby)
- From anywhere The planner compares every way there from wherever you are. [Plan a trip](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=Stainby)

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 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. [Isle of Wight](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/isle-of-wight) GB 11 ways of moving, 22 sources 239 km
2. [Lundy](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/lundy) GB 7 ways of moving, 11 sources 329 km
3. [Vlieland](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/vlieland) NL 10 ways of moving, 47 sources 380 km
4. [Isle of Arran](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/isle-of-arran) GB 10 ways of moving, 36 sources 425 km
5. [Tarbert, Loch Fyne and Kintyre](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/tarbert-loch-fyne) GB 9 ways of moving, 15 sources 459 km

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

Around it

## Next door to Stainby

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

- [Woolsthorpe-by-Colsterworth](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/woolsthorpe-by-colsterworth) village in Lincolnshire 2.3 km
- [Colsterworth](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/colsterworth) village and civil parish in Lincolnshire, England, UK 2.6 km
- [Buckminster](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/buckminster) village in Leicestershire, England, UK 3.2 km
- [North Witham](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/north-witham) village in Lincolnshire, UK 2.2 km
- [Easton](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/easton) village and civil parish in the South Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England, UK 3.9 km
- [Skillington](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/skillington) village in Lincolnshire, UK 3.1 km

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