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Washingborough

Washingborough is a village and civil parish in the North Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England.

Washingborough
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The place

Washingborough is a village and civil parish in the North Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England. Located 3 miles (5 km) east of Lincoln and 18 miles (29 km) from Sleaford.

The population in the 2001 census was 3,356, increasing to 3,482 at the 2011 census and 3,664 at the 2021 census. It is situated on the lower slopes of Lincoln Cliff limestone escarpment where the River Witham breaks through it. The south side of Lincoln Cathedral and its three towers can be seen from the village centre.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Washingborough

6 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
    All Saints' Church, Lincoln

    All Saints' Church, Lincoln is a parish church on Monks Road in Lincoln in the Church of England. The parish is part of the Deanery of Christianity within the Diocese of Lincoln.

    3.6 km · parish church building in Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Canwick Road Old Cemetery

    Canwick Road Old Cemetery also known as The Old Cemetery or Canwick Road Cemetery was built in 1856 near the city of Lincoln in Lincolnshire, England. The cemetery opened in 1856 and had two chapels of ease designed by Michael Drury in the Gothic Revival style.

    4 km · cemetery in Lincoln, England · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Branston Hall

    Branston Hall is a country house in the village of Branston, Lincolnshire, England. The hall, a Grade II listed building, is set in 88 acres of wooded parkland and lakes.

    3.2 km · country house in the village of Branston, Lincolnshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Methodist Church

    Washingborough is a village and civil parish in the North Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England. Located 3 miles east of Lincoln and 18 miles from Sleaford.

    400 m · church in Washingborough, North Kesteven, Lincolnshire, England · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Church of St John the Evangelist

    St John the Evangelist Church is the parish church of Washingborough in Lincolnshire, England.

    200 m · church in Washingborough, Lincolnshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Church of St Giles

    St Giles Church, Lincoln is a Grade II listed parish church in St Giles, a suburb of Lincoln in Lincolnshire, England. It was built in 1936 by William Watkins, on a similar plan to the demolished 18th-century St Peter at Arches Church, and reusing some of its materials.

    3.9 km · church building in Lincoln, 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 Washingborough

Airports
East Midlands (EMA), 72 km · Leeds Bradford (LBA), 106 km · Manchester (MAN), 121 km
Stations
Washingborough railway station, 600 m · RAF Fiskerton, 3.8 km
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Washingborough
    54 km · quickest by road, 1h 25m · £6–9
  • Leeds, West Yorkshire → Washingborough
    95 km · quickest by road, 2h 12m · £11–15
  • Manchester, Greater Manchester → Washingborough
    120 km · quickest by road, 3h 13m · £13–18
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Washingborough

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get aroundThe medieval spine of town isn't suitable for anything more elaborate than a pack-mule or hand-cart.

From Wikivoyage: Lincoln, 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

    287 km
  2. 02
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    363 km
  3. 03
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    365 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 Washingborough – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Washingborough

Washingborough is 54 km from Nottingham, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

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  • Branstonvillage in Lincolnshire, UK3.1 km
  • Canwickvillage in Lincolnshire, England, UK3.7 km
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