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Withernsea

Withernsea is a seaside resort town and civil parish in Holderness, East Riding of Yorkshire, England.

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The place

Withernsea is a seaside resort town and civil parish in Holderness, East Riding of Yorkshire, England. Its white inland lighthouse, rising around 127 feet (39 m) above Hull Road, now houses a museum to 1950s actress Kay Kendall, who was born in the town.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Withernsea

3 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
    Withernsea Lighthouse

    Withernsea Lighthouse is an inland lighthouse that stands in the middle of the town of Withernsea in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. The lighthouse stands 127 feet high and took 18 months to build between 1892 and 1894.

    700 m · lighthouse in Withernsea, East Riding of Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Church of St Nicholas

    St Nicholas' Church is the parish church of Hollym, East Riding of Yorkshire, a village in England. A chapel of ease to St Nicholas' Church, Withernsea was built in Hollym in the mediaeval period, and it was given tis own parish in 1409.

    2.5 km · church building in Hollym, East Riding of Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    St. Patrick's Church, Patrington

    St Patrick's Church, Patrington is an Anglican parish church located in Patrington, East Riding of Yorkshire, England. The church is a Grade I listed building.

    6 km · church in Patrington, East Riding of Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia

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Getting to Withernsea

Airports
Leeds Bradford (LBA), 113 km · East Midlands (EMA), 135 km · Manchester (MAN), 159 km
  • Leeds, West Yorkshire → Withernsea
    104 km · quickest by road, 2h 23m · £11–15
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Withernsea
    117 km · quickest by road, 2h 51m · £16–21
  • Manchester, Greater Manchester → Withernsea
    152 km · quickest by road, 3h · £16–22
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Withernsea

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 Withernsea. 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
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    331 km
  2. 02
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    350 km
  3. 03
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    391 km
  4. 04
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    422 km
  5. 05
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    427 km

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

Around it

Next door to Withernsea

Withernsea is 25 km from Kingston upon Hull, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Patringtonvillage and civil parish in Holderness in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England6 km
  • Rimswellvillage in East Yorkshire, England3.5 km
  • Holmptonvillage in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England, UK4.7 km
  • Hollymvillage and civil parish in East Riding of Yorkshire, England, UK2.5 km
  • Tunstallvillage in East Riding of Yorkshire, United Kingdom5.8 km
  • Winesteadvillage in the East Riding of Yorkshire, UK5.6 km