Woolsthorpe-by-Colsterworth is 100 miles (160 km) north of London, and 1 kilometre west of the A1 (one of the primary north-south roads of Great Britain. The hamlet is three to four kilometres from the county boundary with Leicestershire and six from Rutland.
Woolsthorpe Manor, Newton's birthplace, is a typical 17th century yeoman farmer's limestone house with its later farmyard buildings. It is owned by the National Trust and is open to the public.
