Photo of Whisby Nature Park, a nature reserve in Lincolnshire, central England.

Whisby Nature Park© PAUL FARMER / Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0

Places to explore near Swinderby StationSwinderby

13 places within 10 km — the standouts first, nearest first within each group.

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Whisby Nature Park

Nature reserve near Lincoln

Restored gravel-pit lakes and heath west of Lincoln, threaded with trails and known for nightingales and dragonflies.

4.5 km NE

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River Trent

River navigation

The powerhouse river of the Midlands, navigable from Shardlow through Nottingham and Newark to the tidal reaches at Gainsborough.

5.4 km W · Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire & Derbyshire

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Doddington Hall

House & garden near Saxilby

An Elizabethan house finished by Robert Smythson in 1600 and never once sold.

6.4 km NE

Hartsholme Country Park

Country park near Lincoln

A country park in Lincolnshire.

8.4 km NE

Fossdyke Navigation

Canal

Britain's oldest working canal, dug by the Romans around AD 120 to join the Trent to the Witham at Lincoln.

9.8 km N · Lincolnshire

Everything else within 10 km (8) — reserves, earthworks & places to check before travelling

Preceptory at Eagle HallPreceptoryaccess unclear1.3 km N
Besthorpe WarrenSSSIaccess unclear3.9 km W
Spalford WarrenSSSIaccess unclear4.6 km NW
Besthorpe MeadowsSSSIaccess unclear4.8 km W
Crococalana Roman townRoman archaeological siteaccess unclear6.7 km SW
Doddington Clay WoodsSSSIaccess unclear6.8 km N
Swanholme LakesSSSI8 km NE
Nunnery, BroadholmeSite of a former nunneryaccess unclear9.6 km N

Ordered by how far each place is worth travelling for, then by distance. Distances are straight-line to the nearest edge of each place — paths wind, of course.