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Swaby

Swaby is a civil parish and village in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England, about 8 miles (13 km) north from Spilsby, and 6 miles (9.7 km) north-west from Alford.

The place

Swaby is a civil parish and village in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England, about 8 miles (13 km) north from Spilsby, and 6 miles (9.7 km) north-west from Alford. Whitepit is a hamlet half a mile west of the village.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Swaby

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
    Burwell Priory

    Burwell Priory was a priory in the village of Burwell, Lincolnshire, England. The priory was built around 1110 for Benedictine monks, by Ansgot of Burwell, who addressed his charter to Robert, Bishop of Lincoln 1094-1123.

    3.8 km · monastery in Lincolnshire, England · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    St Michael's Church, Burwell

    St Michael's Church is a redundant Anglican church in the village of Burwell, Lincolnshire, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building, and is under the care of the Churches Conservation Trust.

    3.9 km · church in Burwell, Lincolnshire, England, UK · 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.

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Getting to Swaby

Airports
East Midlands (EMA), 106 km · Leeds Bradford (LBA), 132 km · Birmingham (BHX), 153 km
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Swaby
    90 km · quickest by road, 2h 22m · £10–13
  • Leeds, West Yorkshire → Swaby
    122 km · quickest by road, 2h 31m · £14–18
  • London → Swaby
    8 km · quickest by road, 42 min · £1–1.5
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Swaby

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 Swaby. 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

    303 km
  2. 02
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    326 km
  3. 03
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    399 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    423 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    456 km

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

Around it

Next door to Swaby

Swaby is 59 km from Kingston upon Hull, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

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  • Belleauvillage and civil parish in Lincolnshire, England, UK1.8 km
  • Burwellvillage and civil parish in Lincolnshire, England, UK4 km
  • Claythorpevillage in Lincolnshire, England, UK3 km