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Winthorpe

Winthorpe is a small coastal village in the civil parish of Skegness, in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England.

The place

Winthorpe is a small coastal village in the civil parish of Skegness, in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. It is situated approximately 2 miles (3.2 km) north from Skegness.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Winthorpe

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
    Fantasy Island

    Fantasy Island Resort is a resort theme park located in Ingoldmells on the east coast of Lincolnshire, UK. It opened in 1995 and is owned by the Mellors Group. The park features an outdoor selection of rides as well as an indoor entertainment complex situated in a steel pyramid.

    3.1 km · Family amusement park in Ingoldmells, near Skegness on the East Coast of England · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Former Skegness Convalescent Home

    Skegness Town Hall is a municipal building on North Parade in Skegness, a town in Lincolnshire in England. The building, which served as a convalescent home before being converted for municipal use, is a Grade II listed building.

    1.8 km · building in Skegness, Lincolnshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Lincolnshire Coast Light Railway

    The Lincolnshire Coast Light Railway is a 2 ft narrow gauge heritage railway in Skegness. It has previously been located on two other sites, originally as an industrial railway, and later as a heritage line near Cleethorpes.

    1.5 km · narrow gauge heritage railway · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Skegness Pier

    Skegness Pier is a pleasure pier in Skegness, Lincolnshire, England. Opened in June 1881, it was at the time the fourth longest in England, originally stretching a length of 1,844 ft.

    2.3 km · pier in Lincolnshire, England · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    The Village Church Farm Museum

    The Village Church Farm, formerly known as Church Farm Museum, is an open-air museum of local and agricultural history near Skegness, Lincolnshire, England. There are a number of traditional indigenous buildings, including a thatched "mud and stud" cottage, moved from the nearby village of Withern, the original 18th-century farmhouse, and a 19th-century stable block and cowshed.

    2.2 km · open-air museum of local and agricultural history near Skegness, Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom · 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 Winthorpe

Airports
East Midlands (EMA), 117 km · London Stansted (STN), 142 km · London Luton (LTN), 151 km
Stations
Skegness railway station, 2.4 km
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Winthorpe
    29 km · quickest by road, 53 min · £3.5–4.5
  • London, Essex → Winthorpe
    183 km · quickest by road, 3h 32m · £19–25
  • London → Winthorpe
    183 km · quickest by road, 3h 32m · £19–25
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Winthorpe

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inThe nearest ferry port to Skegness is King George Dock in Hull.

From Wikivoyage: Skegness, 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

    297 km
  2. 02
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    309 km
  3. 03
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    407 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    444 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    477 km

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

Around it

Next door to Winthorpe

  • Skegnessseaside town and civil parish in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England2.4 km
  • Addlethorpevillage in Lincolnshire, England, UK3.6 km
  • Ingoldmellscoastal village, civil parish and resort in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England3 km
  • Ashington Endvillage in Lincolnshire, United Kingdom2.6 km