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Thornton Curtis

Thornton Curtis is a village and civil parish in the North Lincolnshire district of Lincolnshire, England, approximately 5 miles (8 km) south-east from the town of Barton-upon-Humber.

Thornton Curtis
Thornton Curtis · Paul Stainthorp
The place

Thornton Curtis is a village and civil parish in the North Lincolnshire district of Lincolnshire, England, approximately 5 miles (8 km) south-east from the town of Barton-upon-Humber. The population at the 2011 census was 295.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Thornton Curtis

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
    Church of All Saints

    All Saints' Church is an Anglican church and Grade I Listed building in Goxhill, North Lincolnshire, England.

    3.6 km · church in Goxhill, Lincolnshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Church of Holy Trinity

    Church of Holy Trinity is an Anglican church and Grade I Listed building in Barrow upon Humber, North Lincolnshire, England.

    3.8 km · church in Barrow upon Humber, Lincolnshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Goxhill Hall

    Goxhill Hall is a late 17th-century residence and a Grade II* Listed building in Goxhill, North Lincolnshire. A 14th to 15th-century Medieval hall joins onto the north-east corner of Goxhill Hall.

    3.4 km · historic site in North Lincolnshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Thornton Abbey

    Thornton Abbey was a medieval abbey located close to the small North Lincolnshire village of Thornton Curtis, near Ulceby, and directly south of Hull on the other side of the Humber estuary. Its ruins are a Grade I listed building, including notably England's largest and most impressive surviving monastic gatehouse.

    3.2 km · Grade I listed abbey in Thornton Curtis, North Lincolnshire, 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.

Go there

Getting to Thornton Curtis

Airports
Leeds Bradford (LBA), 89 km · East Midlands (EMA), 111 km · Manchester (MAN), 131 km
Stations
Goxhill railway station, 3.6 km · Thornton Abbey railway station, 2.4 km
  • Leeds, West Yorkshire → Thornton Curtis
    80 km · quickest by road, 1h 50m · £9–12
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Thornton Curtis
    93 km · quickest by road, 2h 22m · £11–15
  • Manchester, Greater Manchester → Thornton Curtis
    126 km · quickest by road, 2h 32m · £15–19
  • From anywhere
    The planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Thornton Curtis

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inSeveral of the services operate through to King George Dock to connect with ferry services through to the continent.
  • Get inP&O Ferries sail daily to and from Europoort, Rotterdam, Netherlands.
  • Get inThe number 70 bus, operated by Stagecoach Hull, operates once daily in each direction between Hull Interchange and the ferry terminal.
  • Get aroundHull is one of the best cities for cycling in the UK, with extensive cycle paths, including some off road routes.
  • Go nextBook a two-night mini-cruise with P&O Ferries and go to Amsterdam, Rotterdam or Bruges.

From Wikivoyage: Kingston upon Hull, 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 WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    335 km
  2. 02
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    356 km
  3. 03
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    375 km
  4. 04
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    401 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    407 km

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

Around it

Next door to Thornton Curtis

Thornton Curtis is 11 km from Kingston upon Hull, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Goxhillvillage in North Lincolnshire, England, UK3.8 km
  • Barrow upon Humbervillage and civil parish in North Lincolnshire, UK3.6 km
  • Ulcebyvillage and civil parish in North Lincolnshire, Lincolnshire, England3.8 km
  • Woottonvillage and civil parish in Lincolnshire, UK1.7 km
  • Barrow Hannvillage in Lincolnshire, England, UK3.7 km
  • Burnhamvillage in Lincolnshire, England, UK3 km