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Wothorpe

Wothorpe is a village and civil parish in the Peterborough unitary authority of Cambridgeshire, England.

Wothorpe
Wothorpe · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Wothorpe is a village and civil parish in the Peterborough unitary authority of Cambridgeshire, England. It is in the far north-west of the district, and to the south of Stamford. The parish borders Northamptonshire to the west.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Wothorpe

10 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
    Burghley House

    Burghley House is a grand 16th-century English country house near Stamford, Lincolnshire. It is a leading example of the Elizabethan prodigy house, built and still lived in by the senior branch of the Cecil family and is Grade I listed.

    2 km · grand sixteenth-century country house near Stamford, Lincolnshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    St Martin's Church, Stamford

    St Martin's Church, Stamford, is a Grade I listed parish church in the Church of England located in Stamford, Lincolnshire, England. The area of the town south of the River Welland was in Northamptonshire until 1889 and is called Stamford Baron or St Martin's.

    800 m · church in Stamford, Lincolnshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    All Saints' Church, Stamford

    All Saints' Church, Stamford is an historic parish church, of the Church of England, in Stamford, Lincolnshire, England. It is a Grade I listed building.

    1.1 km · church in Stamford, Lincolnshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    St George's Church, Stamford

    St George's Church is a Grade I listed building in Stamford, Lincolnshire, England.

    1.1 km · church in Stamford, Lincolnshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    St John the Baptist's Church, Stamford

    St John the Baptist's Church is a redundant Anglican church in the centre of the town of Stamford, Lincolnshire, 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.

    1 km · church in Stamford, Lincolnshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    New College Stamford

    Stamford College is a further education college on Drift Road in Stamford, Lincolnshire, England. It opened as Stamford Technical College in 1967 and was later called New College Stamford, becoming Stamford College in 2020.

    1.9 km · college in Lincolnshire, UK · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Stamford University

    The University of Stamford was an academic institution founded in 1333 in Stamford, Lincolnshire, by a group of students and tutors from the University of Oxford, including Merton College and Brasenose Hall. After lobbying by the University of Oxford, King Edward III suppressed the institution in 1335 and the tutors and scholars were returned to Oxford.

    1.4 km · English university, 1333-35 · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    St Mary's Church, Stamford

    St Mary's Church, Stamford is a parish church of the Church of England, located in Stamford, Lincolnshire. It lends its name to St Mary's Hill on which it stands, and which runs down to the river crossing opposite The George Hotel.

    1 km · church in Stamford, Lincolnshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Church of St Peter and St Paul

    The Church of St Peter and St Paul is a church in Great Casterton, Rutland. It is a Grade I listed building.

    3.7 km · Grade I listed church in Great Casterton, Rutland, England, UK · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Stamford Town Hall

    Stamford Town Hall is a municipal building in St Mary's Hill, Stamford, Lincolnshire, England. The building, which is the headquarters of Stamford Town Council, is a Grade II* listed building.

    900 m · building in Stamford, 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.

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Getting to Wothorpe

Airports
East Midlands (EMA), 61 km · London Luton (LTN), 86 km · Birmingham (BHX), 88 km
Stations
Stamford railway station, 600 m
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Wothorpe
    57 km · quickest by road, 1h 27m · £7–9
  • Luton, Luton → Wothorpe
    84 km · quickest by road, 2h 10m · £10–13
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Wothorpe
    97 km · quickest by road, 2h 15m · £11–15
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Wothorpe

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 Wothorpe. 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
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    225 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    330 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    372 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    445 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    480 km

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

Around it

Next door to Wothorpe

Wothorpe is 44 km from Leicester, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.