Aston Fields

Worth seeing in and around Aston Fields

7 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
   Church of St John the Baptist, Bromsgrove

   The Church of St John the Baptist, Bromsgrove is a Grade I listed parish church in the Church of England in Bromsgrove.

   1.6 km · church in Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, England, UK · Wikipedia
2. 02
   Hewell Grange

   Hewell Grange is a former country house in Tardebigge, Worcestershire, England. "One of the most important late 19th century country houses in England", the mansion was built between 1884 and 1891 by George Frederick Bodley and Thomas Garner for Robert Windsor-Clive, later first Earl of Plymouth.

   3.8 km · grade I listed house in Worcestershire, England, UK · Wikipedia
3. 03
   Avoncroft Museum of Historic Buildings

   Avoncroft Museum of Historic Buildings is an open-air museum of rescued buildings which have been relocated to its site in Stoke Heath, a district of Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, England. Founded in 1963 and opened in 1967, the museum was conceived following the dismantling of a 15th-century timber-framed house in Bromsgrove in 1962 to provide a location for its reconstruction.

   1.9 km · local independent museum in Bromsgrove, England, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
4. 04
   Grafton Manor

   Grafton Manor was established before the Norman Conquest. Grafton means "settlement at or near the wood" and may indicate a role in woodland management within a larger estate, for instance.

   2.9 km · manor house in Dodford with Grafton, Bromsgrove District, England, UK · Wikipedia
5. 05
   Tardebigge Lake

   Tardebigge Lake is a large feeder reservoir, about 25 acres in size, built to supply water for the famous flight of locks running from Tardebigge towards Worcester, on the Worcester and Birmingham Canal. It is maintained by the Canal and River Trust and still supplies water to the canal system.

   2 km · reservoir in Worcestershire, England, UK · Wikipedia
6. 06
   Tardebigge Engine House

   Tardebigge Engine House is a former canal-pumping engine house at Tardebigge, Worcestershire, England. It is grade II listed.

   2.1 km · engine house in Tutnall and Cobley, Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, England, UK · Wikipedia
7. 07
   Tardebigge Locks

   Tardebigge Locks or the Tardebigge Flight is the longest flight of locks in the UK, comprising 30 narrow locks on a two-and-a-quarter-mile stretch of the Worcester and Birmingham Canal at Tardebigge, Worcestershire. It raises the waterway 220 feet, and lies between the Tardebigge tunnel to the North and the Stoke Prior flight of six narrow locks to the South.

   2.6 km · canal locks in Worcestershire, England · Wikipedia

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Getting to Aston Fields

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Birmingham (BHX), 25 km · East Midlands (EMA), 75 km · Bristol (BRS), 114 km

Stations

Bromsgrove railway station, 0 m

• Nottingham, Leicestershire → Aston Fields

  93 km · quickest by road, 1h 58m · £10–13
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  160 km · quickest by road, 3h 6m · £17–23
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  104 km · quickest by road, 2h 5m · £11–14
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