Brewood

Worth seeing in and around Brewood

10 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
   Pennocrucium

   Pennocrucium was a Romano-British settlement and military complex located at present day Water Eaton, just south of Penkridge, Staffordshire, with evidence of occupation from the mid-1st century until the 4th century. The settlement was mentioned in the 2nd century Antonine Itinerary, which described it as lying 12 miles from Uxacona and 12 miles from Letocetum.

   2.6 km · archaeological site in Penkridge, South Staffordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
2. 02
   Boscobel House

   Boscobel House is a Grade II* listed building in the parish of Boscobel in Shropshire. It has been, at various times, a farmhouse, a hunting lodge, and a holiday home; but it is most famous for its role in the escape of Charles II after the Battle of Worcester in 1651.

   4.8 km · historic house museum in Shropshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
3. 03
   Chillington Hall

   Chillington Hall is a Georgian country house near Brewood, Staffordshire, England, four miles northwest of Wolverhampton. It is the residence of the Giffard family.

   3 km · Grade I listed historic house museum in South Staffordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
4. 04
   St John's Church, Stretton

   St John's Church, Stretton is the Church of England parish church of Stretton, South Staffordshire.

   2.8 km · church in Stretton, South Staffordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
5. 05
   Hatherton Canal

   The Hatherton Canal is a derelict branch of the Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal in south Staffordshire, England. It was constructed in two phases, the first section opening in 1841 and connecting the main line to Churchbridge, from where a tramway connected to the Great Wyrley coal mines.

   5.2 km · derelict canal in Staffordshire, England · Wikipedia
6. 06
   Somerford Hall

   Somerford Hall is an 18th-century Palladian style mansion house at Brewood, Staffordshire. It is a Grade II* listed building.

   1.7 km · house in Brewood and Coven, South Staffordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
7. 07
   St Paul's Church, Coven

   St Paul's Church, Coven is a Grade II listed parish church in the Church of England in Coven, Staffordshire

   3.4 km · church in Coven, South Staffordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
8. 08
   Belvide Reservoir

   Belvide Reservoir is a reservoir in South Staffordshire, England. It was built in 1833 to supply the Birmingham and Liverpool Junction Canal, and has been managed as a nature reserve since 1977.

   1.7 km · Canal feeder reservoir and nature reserve in south Staffordshire, England. · Wikipedia
9. 09
   Stretton Aqueduct

   Stretton Aqueduct is a short cast iron canal aqueduct between Stretton and Brewood, and near to Belvide Reservoir, in south Staffordshire, England. Designed by Thomas Telford and bearing his name plus its date of construction, 1832, it carries the Shropshire Union Canal 30 feet over the A5 road at a skewed angle.

   2.2 km · canal aqueduct in Staffordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
10. 10
    Speedwell Castle

    Speedwell Castle is a mid-18th-century house at the centre of Brewood, in Staffordshire, England. Nikolaus Pevsner described it as a "peach" and a "delectable folly", and it stands beside the village market place, at the head of a T-junction on Bargate Street, facing onto Stafford Street.

    200 m · house in Brewood, Brewood and Coven, South Staffordshire, Staffordshire, England · Wikipedia

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Getting to Brewood

Airports

Birmingham (BHX), 38 km · East Midlands (EMA), 59 km · Manchester (MAN), 75 km

Stations

Codsall railway station, 5.9 km · Bilbrook railway station, 6 km · Four Ashes railway station, 3.2 km · Gailey railway station, 3.4 km · Brinsford Parkway railway station, 4.6 km

• Nottingham, Leicestershire → Brewood

  75 km · quickest by road, 1h 50m · £9–12
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  89 km · quickest by road, 2h 11m · £10–14
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  98 km · quickest by road, 2h 22m · £12–16
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