Gainsborough

Gainsborough is a market town and civil parish in the West Lindsey district of , England. The population was 20,842 at the 2011 census, and estimated at 23,243 in 2019.
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  • Type: Town with 20,800 residents
  • Description: town and civil parish in Lincolnshire, England
  • Also known as: Gainesborough” and “Gainsborough, Lincolnshire

Places of Interest

Highlights include Gainsborough Lea Road railway station and Gainsborough Old Hall.

Railway station
Gainsborough Lea Road is one of two railway stations that serve the town of Gainsborough in , England, the other being , which is located in the town centre.

Museum
in Gainsborough, is a five-hundred year old manor house and one of the best preserved medieval manor houses in England.

Railway station
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
is one of two railway stations in the town of Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, . The station is on the Brigg branch of the Sheffield–Lincoln line.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Thonock and Somerby by Gainsborough.

Hamlet
is a small settlement in the West Lindsey district of , England. It is situated approximately 2 miles north from the town of Gainsborough, and on the A159 road The population is included in the civil parish of .

Locality
Somerby is a hamlet in the West Lindsey district of , England. It is situated 2 miles south-east from the town of Gainsborough, and lies in the civil parish of . is situated 2½ miles east of Gainsborough.

Gainsborough

Latitude
53.3995° or 53° 23′ 58″ north
Longitude
-0.7759° or 0° 46′ 33″ west
Population
20,800
Elevation
36 feet (11 metres)
United Nations Location Code
GB GAI
Open location code
9C5X96XF+RJ
Open­Street­Map ID
node 21641028
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2648945
Wiki­data ID
Q288082
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Gainsborough” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: غينزبورو، لينكولنشاير
  • Armenian: Գեյնսբորո
  • Asturian: Gainsborough
  • Azerbaijani: Qeynsboro
  • Basque: Gainsborough (Lincolnshire)
  • Basque: Gainsborough
  • Bavarian: Gainsborough
  • Belarusian: Гейнсбара
  • Bengali: গেইন্সবরো
  • Cebuano: Gainsborough
  • Chinese: 根斯堡
  • Chinese: 金斯博洛
  • Czech: Gainsborough
  • Dutch: Gainsborough
  • Esperanto: Gainsborough
  • French: Gainsborough
  • German: Gainsborough
  • Greek: Γκεΐνσμπορο
  • Gujarati: ગેન્સબોરો
  • Hebrew: גיינסבורו
  • Irish: Gainsborough, Lincolnshire
  • Irish: Gainsborough
  • Italian: Gainsborough
  • Japanese: ゲインスバラ
  • Japanese: ゲインズバラ
  • Japanese: ゲインズボロー
  • Kannada: ಗೇನ್ಸ್ಬರೋ
  • Korean: 게인스보루
  • Ladin: Gainsborough
  • Latvian: Geinsboro
  • Lithuanian: Geinsboras
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Gainsborough
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: Gainsborough i Lincolnshire
  • Norwegian: Gainsborough
  • Persian: گاینسبورو، لینکلن‌شر
  • Persian: گینزبورو، لینکلن‌شر
  • Polish: Gainsborough
  • Portuguese: Gainsborough
  • Romanian: Gainsborough
  • Russian: Гейнсборо
  • Serbo-Croatian: Gainsborough, Lincolnshire
  • Slovak: Gainsborough
  • Slovenian: Gainsborough
  • South Azerbaijani: قینزبورو، لینکلن‌شر
  • Spanish: Gainsborough (Lincolnshire)
  • Spanish: Gainsborough
  • Swedish: Gainsborough
  • Tamil: கைனஸ்போரூக்ஹ்
  • Telugu: గైన్స్బారోగ్
  • Turkish: Gainsborough, Lincolnshire
  • Ukrainian: Гейнсборо
  • Urdu: گیئنزبرو، لنکنشائر
  • Welsh: Gainsborough, Swydd Lincoln
  • Welsh: Gainsborough
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