Skillington
Skillington is a village and civil parish in the South Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England. The population of the civil parish at the 2021 census was 314.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 314 residents
- Description: village in Lincolnshire, UK
- Also known as: “Skillington, Lincolnshire”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Church of St James and Woolsthorpe Manor.
Woolsthorpe Manor
Museum
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Woolsthorpe Manor in Woolsthorpe-by-Colsterworth, near Grantham, Lincolnshire, England, is the birthplace and family home of Sir Isaac Newton. In the orchard within the grounds is Newton's famous apple tree. Woolsthorpe Manor is situated 2 miles southeast of Skillington.
Church of St Peter
Church
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Church of St Peter is situated 2 miles south of Skillington.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Woolsthorpe-by-Colsterworth and Colsterworth.
Woolsthorpe-by-Colsterworth
Village
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Woolsthorpe-by-Colsterworth is a hamlet in the South Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England, within the civil parish of Colsterworth. It is best known as the birthplace of Sir Isaac Newton. Woolsthorpe-by-Colsterworth is situated 1½ miles southeast of Skillington.
Colsterworth
Village
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Colsterworth is a village and civil parish in the South Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England, less than half a mile west of the A1, about 7 miles south of Grantham, and 12 miles north-west of Stamford. Colsterworth is situated 2½ miles southeast of Skillington.
Sewstern
Village
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Sewstern is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Buckminster, in the Melton district of east Leicestershire, England. It lies just south of Buckminster, with which it shares a primary school, situated between the two villages. Sewstern is situated 2½ miles south of Skillington.
Skillington
- Category: locality
- Location: Skillington, South Kesteven District, Lincolnshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
52.82135° or 52° 49′ 17″ northLongitude
-0.66843° or 0° 40′ 6″ westPopulation
314Elevation
400 feet (122 metres)Open location code
9C4XR8CJ+GJOpenStreetMap ID
node 5835977500OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2637713Wikidata ID
Q7535227
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Welsh—“Skillington” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Skillington”
- Dutch: “Skillington”
- French: “Skillington”
- Irish: “Skillington”
- Polish: “Skillington”
- Portuguese: “Skillington”
- Swedish: “Skillington”
- Turkish: “Skillington”
- Welsh: “Skillington”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Skillington”. Photo: Kate Jewell, CC BY-SA 2.0.