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# Cleethorpes

Cleethorpes is a seaside town on the estuary of the Humber in North East Lincolnshire, Lincolnshire, England with a population of 29,670 in 2021.

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## Every way there

- Leeds, West Yorkshire → Cleethorpes 103 km · quickest by road, 1h 40m · £11–15 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/leeds-west-yorkshire-to-cleethorpes) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Leeds%2C+West+Yorkshire&to=Cleethorpes)
- Nottingham, Leicestershire → Cleethorpes 100 km · quickest by road, 1h 54m · £11–15 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/nottingham-leicestershire-to-cleethorpes) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Nottingham%2C+Leicestershire&to=Cleethorpes)
- Manchester, Greater Manchester → Cleethorpes 147 km · quickest by road, 2h 22m · £17–22 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/manchester-greater-manchester-to-cleethorpes) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Manchester%2C+Greater+Manchester&to=Cleethorpes)

Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

The field note

What is in and around Cleethorpes, ranked by how widely it is written about, how you reach it, and the nearest places where we have researched how people move.

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What Cleethorpes has

- Y Scheduled flights Leeds, West Yorkshire (LBA), 113 km
- Y Trains and coaches Transitous carries 3 timetable feeds for this country, 2 with real-time
- Y Ferries Brevik, 15 km, DFDS; sailings estimated
- Y Driving and taxi OpenStreetMap roads; cab fare from the country band
- N Bike and scooter share no share feed known
- N Cruises no open itinerary source anywhere

Y routable now · F found, not yet implemented · N no source known.

53.553°, -0.022°

It has been permanently occupied since the 6th century, with fishing as its original industry, and then developing into a resort in the 19th century. Before becoming a unified town, Cleethorpes was made up of the three small villages of Itterby, Oole and Thrunscoe.

Get in

## Getting to Cleethorpes

See Grimsby for long-distance driving directions and buses.

Eat

## Where to eat

Numerous small places, both eat-in and carry-out, offer the traditional British seaside fare of fish and chips, pizza, kebabs, chicken foo yong and lamb bhuna, to be followed by more chips. Papa's Fish & Chips, Pier DN35 8SF,. Daily 11:30AM-9PM. 500-seater restaurant opened in April 2017, reinvigorating the pier. Is this the biggest fish & chips shop in the galaxy? It's certainly the biggest on Cleethorpes Pier.

How locals move

## Getting around Cleethorpes the local way

- Get in It's also a base for helicopter transfers to the offshore oil and gas rigs, and for private aviation.

From [Wikivoyage: Grimsby](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Grimsby), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us. Last edited 2026-09.

Text adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleethorpes) and [Wikivoyage](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Cleethorpes), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: mattbuck (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.


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