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Asterley

Asterley is a village in Shropshire, England.

The place

Asterley is a village in Shropshire, England. Its name, derived from Old English, means "the eastern clearing in the forest".

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Asterley

One place 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
    Caus Castle

    Caus Castle is a ruin of a hill fort and medieval castle in the civil parish of Westbury in the English county of Shropshire. It is situated up on the eastern foothills of the Long Mountain guarding the route from Shrewsbury, Shropshire to Montgomery, Powys, on the border between England and Wales.

    3.8 km · 12th-century castle in England built within an Iron Age hillfort · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Asterley

Airports
Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 76 km · Birmingham (BHX), 83 km · Manchester (MAN), 88 km
Stations
Minsterley railway station, 1.8 km
  • Liverpool → Asterley
    84 km · quickest by road, 2h 20m · £10–14
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Asterley
    72 km · quickest by road, 1h 45m · £8–11
  • Manchester, Greater Manchester → Asterley
    103 km · quickest by road, 2h 28m · £14–18
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Asterley

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Asterley. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    203 km
  2. 02
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    246 km
  3. 03
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    355 km
  4. 04
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    391 km
  5. 05
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    414 km

If you know how people move in Asterley – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

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  • Westburyvillage and civil parish in Shropshire, England, UK3 km
  • Aston Pigotthamlet in Shropshire, England, UK3.7 km
  • Malehurstvillage in Swydd Amwythig, United Kingdom1.2 km
  • Pontesfordvillage in Shropshire, United Kingdom3.5 km