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Thoroton

Thoroton is a small English village and civil parish in the borough of Rushcliffe, and the county of Nottinghamshire, with a population of 112 at the 2011 census, and increasing to 130 at the 2021 census.

Thoroton
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The place

Thoroton is a small English village and civil parish in the borough of Rushcliffe, and the county of Nottinghamshire, with a population of 112 at the 2011 census, and increasing to 130 at the 2021 census. The village has conservation area status. Its Anglican parish church is a Grade I listed building.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Thoroton

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
    Elston Chapel

    Elston Chapel is a redundant Anglican church to the north-east of the village of Elston, Nottinghamshire, 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.

    2.9 km · church in Newark and Sherwood, Nottinghamshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    All Saints' Church, Elston

    All Saints' Church, Elston is a Grade II* listed parish church in the Church of England in Elston, Nottinghamshire, England.

    2.7 km · church in Newark and Sherwood, Nottinghamshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    St Michael's Church, Cotham

    St Michael's Church is a redundant Anglican church in the village of Cotham, Nottinghamshire, England. The building dates back to the 12th century.

    3.6 km · church in Newark and Sherwood, Nottinghamshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Church of St. Mary and All Saints, Hawksworth

    The Church of St Mary and All Saints, Hawksworth, is the Church of England parish church in Hawksworth, Nottinghamshire. It is Grade II* listed by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport as a particularly significant building of more than local interest.

    2.3 km · church in Hawksworth, Rushcliffe, Nottinghamshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    St. Helena's Church, Thoroton

    St Helena's Church, Thoroton is the Church of England parish church of Thoroton, Nottinghamshire, England. The building is Grade I listed by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport as of outstanding architectural interest.

    2.8 km · Grade I listed church in Thoroton, Rushcliffe, Nottinghamshire, 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 Thoroton

Airports
East Midlands (EMA), 37 km · Birmingham (BHX), 85 km · Manchester (MAN), 102 km
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Thoroton
    88 km · quickest by road, 2h 2m · £10–13
  • Manchester, Greater Manchester → Thoroton
    107 km · quickest by road, 2h 50m · £14–18
  • Leeds, West Yorkshire → Thoroton
    102 km · quickest by road, 2h 17m · £11–15
  • 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 Thoroton

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Go nextDirect trains to London mean that the capital is in easy reach for a day trip or to continue your travels.

From Wikivoyage: East Midlands, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2025-06.

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

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    259 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    330 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    391 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    399 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    433 km

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

Around it

Next door to Thoroton

Thoroton is 20 km from Nottingham, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Hawksworthvillage in the Rushcliffe borough of Nottinghamshire, England2.3 km
  • Screvetonvillage and civil parish in Rushcliffe, Nottinghamshire, England3.8 km
  • Elstonvillage and civil parish in Nottinghamshire, UK2.8 km
  • Flawboroughhamlet and civil parish in Nottinghamshire, United Kingdom3 km
  • Sheltonvillage and civil parish in Nottinghamshire, UK1.3 km
  • Flinthamvillage in Nottinghamshire, England, UK3.3 km