Alcester

Worth seeing in and around Alcester

6 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

1. 01
   Coughton Court

   Coughton Court is an English Tudor country house, situated on the main road between Studley and Alcester in Warwickshire. It is a Grade I listed building.

   3.2 km · Grade I listed historic house museum in Stratford-on-Avon, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
2. 02
   Ragley Hall

   Ragley Hall in the parish of Arrow in Warwickshire is a stately home, located south of Alcester and eight miles west of Stratford-upon-Avon. It is the ancestral seat of the Seymour-Conway family, Marquesses of Hertford.

   2.6 km · Grade I listed historic house museum in Stratford-on-Avon, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
3. 03
   St Leonard's Church, Spernall

   St Leonard's Church is a redundant church in Spernall, Warwickshire, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building, and is under the care of the Friends of Friendless Churches.

   4.7 km · church in Stratford-on-Avon, UK · Wikipedia
4. 04
   All Saints Church, Billesley

   All Saints Church is a redundant Anglican church in the village of Billesley, Warwickshire, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building, and is under the care of the Churches Conservation Trust.

   5.8 km · church in Stratford-on-Avon, UK · Wikipedia
5. 05
   Bidford Bridge

   Bidford Bridge crosses the Avon at Bidford-on-Avon, Warwickshire, England. It is a scheduled monument and is Grade I listed.

   5.7 km · Bridge at Bidford-on-Avon, Warwickshire, England · Wikipedia
6. 06
   Roman Catholic Church of Saint Peter Paul and Elizabeth

   St Peter and St Paul and St Elizabeth Catholic Church is a Catholic church built between 1851 and 1853 by the Throckmorton family in the grounds of their family home, Coughton Court. The church was commissioned by Sir Robert Throckmorton, 8th Baronet, in the years after the Catholic Emancipation Acts which would re-allow the profession of the Catholic faith officially for the first time since the Tudor period.

   3 km · church in Stratford-on-Avon, United Kingdom · Wikipedia

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Birmingham (BHX), 28 km · East Midlands (EMA), 78 km · Bristol (BRS), 109 km

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  143 km · quickest by road, 2h 54m · £16–21
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