Blakedown
Blakedown is a village in the Wyre Forest District lying along the A456 in the north of the county of Worcestershire, England.
Blakedown is a village in the Wyre Forest District lying along the A456 in the north of the county of Worcestershire, England. Its built-up area population was 1,447 in 2021.
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Worth seeing in and around Blakedown
2 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.
- 01Harvington Hall
Harvington Hall is a moated medieval and Elizabethan manor house in the hamlet of Harvington in the civil parish of Chaddesley Corbett, southeast of Kidderminster in the English county of Worcestershire. It is open to the public.
4 km · Grade I listed historic house museum in Wyre Forest, United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 02Chester Road North Ground, Kidderminster
The Chester Road North Ground, often referred to simply as Chester Road or Kidderminster, is a cricket ground in Kidderminster, Worcestershire, England. It is the home of Kidderminster Cricket Club, and is currently used for Worcestershire County Cricket Club's Second XI matches.
4 km · cricket ground · Wikipedia
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What Wikivoyage says to see
- 01Severn Valley Railway
- 02The Museum of Carpet
Stour Vale Mill, Green Street, DY10 1AZ, collections@museumofcarpet.org.uk.
- 03Hartlebury Castle
Modernised mid-13th century as a fortified manor house and museum.
- 04Harborough Hall
This timber-frame, stucoed house dates back to around 1635.
From Wikivoyage: Blakedown, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.
Things to do
- 01West Midlands Safari Park.
200 acres (81 hectares) park with 165 species.
From Wikivoyage: Blakedown, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.
Where to eat
- 01Tappeto Lounge
Riverside Walk, Exchange Street,.
- 02Watermill
Park Lane,.
From Wikivoyage: Blakedown, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.
Getting to Blakedown
- Airports
- Birmingham (BHX), 30 km · East Midlands (EMA), 75 km · Manchester (MAN), 105 km
- Stations
- Hagley railway station, 3 km · Blakedown railway station, 300 m
- Nottingham, Leicestershire → Blakedown92 km · quickest by road, 2h 6m · £10–14
- Manchester, Greater Manchester → Blakedown120 km · quickest by road, 2h 28m · £14–18
- Liverpool → Blakedown124 km · quickest by road, 2h 37m · £15–21
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Blakedown
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 Blakedown. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inHolyhead's ferry port ensures that the north of Wales is well connected with the whole West Midlands.
From Wikivoyage: West Midlands (region), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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Next door to Blakedown
Blakedown is 21 km from Birmingham, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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- Draytonvillage in Worcestershire, England, UK3.6 km
- Broadwatersarea and ward in Kidderminster, Wyre Forest, Worcestershire, England3.9 km