Stainby

{{Short description|Hamlet in the South Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England}}

{{Use British English|date=December 2013}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=December 2013}}

{{Infobox UK place

| static_image_name= Stainby, Lincolnshire - geograph.org.uk - 38280.jpg

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| static_image_caption= Stainby village

| country = England

| official_name= Stainby

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| coordinates = {{coord|52.796475|-0.65391|display=inline,title}}

| population=

| civil_parish= Gunby and Stainby

| shire_district= South Kesteven

| shire_county = Lincolnshire

| region= East Midlands

| constituency_westminster= Grantham and Stamford

| post_town= GRANTHAM

| postcode_district = NG33

| postcode_area= NG

| dial_code=

| os_grid_reference= SK908229

| london_distance_mi= 95

| london_direction= S

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Stainby is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Gunby and Stainby, in the South Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England. It is situated {{convert|2|mi|km|1}} west from the A1 road, {{convert|1.5|mi|km|1}} east from the Viking Way and the Leicestershire border, and {{convert|8|mi|km|0}} south from Grantham. In 1921 the parish had a population of 117.{{cite web|url=https://visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/10452983/cube/TOT_POP|title=Population statistics Stainby CP/AP through time|publisher=A Vision of Britain through Time|accessdate=7 July 2023}}

File:St Peter's Church Stainby - geograph.org.uk - 1353960.jpg

Stainby is part of the civil parish of Gunby and Stainby, which is now administered as part of the Colsterworth district parishes.{{cite web|title=Colsterworth & District Parishes|url=http://parishes.lincolnshire.gov.uk/ColsterworthandDistrict/|publisher=Lincolnshire county council|access-date=1 June 2013|quote=Colsterworth and District Parish Council is a combined council consisting of the civil parishes of Colsterworth, (which includes the hamlet of Woolsthorpe By Colsterworth), Gunby and Stainby and recently North Witham, (which includes Lobthorpe).}} Stainby had been a parish in its own right until 1931.{{cite web|publisher=GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth |title=Stainby CP through time ; Census tables with data for the Parish-level Unit |work=A Vision of Britain through Time. |url=http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/10452983 |access-date=8 September 2013}} Adjacent villages include Buckminster, North Witham, Colsterworth, Gunby, Sewstern and Skillington.

Stainby is on the B676 road which runs between Melton Mowbray (Buckminster Road) and Colsterworth (Colsterworth Road). The road is used by heavy goods vehicles from the nearby industrial estate at Sewstern and by vehicles heading from the Midlands towards East Anglia;{{citation needed|date=May 2012}} an alternative route is through Wymondham and South Witham.{{cite map |publisher=Ordnance survey of Great Britain |title=Grantham: Bottesford & Colsterworth |date=3 January 2006 |scale=1:25 000 |series=OS Explorer |section=247 |edition=A1 |isbn=9780319238332}}

There are no shops or public houses - the nearest are in Colsterworth. The church, on Main Road, is dedicated to St Peter. The former Stainby quarry is an event venue for vehicle off-roading.[https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/102797 Stainby quarry]