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Stainton and Thornton

Stainton and Thornton is a civil parish in Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire, England.

Stainton and Thornton
Stainton and Thornton · Original uploader was MRacer at en.wikipedia
The place

Stainton and Thornton is a civil parish in Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire, England. It consists of the two villages Stainton and Thornton. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 1,243.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Stainton and Thornton

5 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
    Middlesbrough Cathedral

    Saint Mary's Cathedral, also known as Middlesbrough Cathedral, is a Roman Catholic cathedral in Coulby Newham, Middlesbrough, England. It is the see of the Bishop of Middlesbrough, who is ordinary of the Diocese of Middlesbrough in the Province of Liverpool.

    3 km · Catholic cathedral in England · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Church of St Peter

    The Church of St Peter is an active Church of England parish church located in the village of Hilton, near Yarm in North Yorkshire, England. Constructed in the 12th century, the building is a small, substantially intact example of Norman architecture.

    3 km · Grade I listed church in Hilton, North Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Church of St Peter ad Vincula

    The Church of St Peter ad Vincula, Thornaby, is an Anglican church in Thornaby, North Yorkshire, England. The structure, which is grade II* listed, is dated to the 12th century, replacing an earlier building on the same site.

    3.8 km · church in Thornaby, North Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Acklam Hall

    Acklam Hall is a Restoration mansion in the former village, and now suburb, of Acklam in Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire, England. It is a Grade I listed building.

    3.1 km · Grade I listed mansion in Middlesbrough, Cleveland, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    St Clare of Assisi, Middlesbrough

    St Clare's, Middlesbrough is a Roman Catholic church in the Brookfield area of Middlesbrough, England. It was built in 1965 and is located close to the junction of the A19 and the A174.

    1.4 km · church in Middlesbrough, England · Wikipedia

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 Stainton and Thornton

Airports
Newcastle (NCL), 64 km · Leeds Bradford (LBA), 77 km · Manchester (MAN), 146 km
  • Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear → Stainton and Thornton
    55 km · quickest by road, 1h 16m · £6–8
  • Leeds, West Yorkshire → Stainton and Thornton
    82 km · quickest by road, 1h 54m · £10–13
  • Manchester, Greater Manchester → Stainton and Thornton
    132 km · quickest by road, 2h 40m · £16–21
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Stainton and Thornton

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inMiddlesbrough is a busy commercial port but has no ferry service.
  • Get inThe nearest ferry ports are Port of Tyne downriver from Newcastle (from IJmuiden near Amsterdam) and Hull (from Rotterdam).

From Wikivoyage: Middlesbrough, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    273 km
  2. 02
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    303 km
  3. 03
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    331 km
  4. 04
    Isle of CollGB

    7 ways of moving, 16 sources

    408 km
  5. 05
    The Small Isles - Eigg, Muck, Rum and CannaGB

    9 ways of moving, 20 sources

    419 km

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

Around it

Next door to Stainton and Thornton

Stainton and Thornton is 55 km from Newcastle upon Tyne, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

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