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Broseley

Broseley is a market town in Shropshire, England, with a population of 4,929 at the 2011 Census and an estimate of 5,022 in 2019.

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The place

Broseley is a market town in Shropshire, England, with a population of 4,929 at the 2011 Census and an estimate of 5,022 in 2019. The River Severn flows to its north and east. The first iron bridge in the world was built in 1779 across the Severn, linking Broseley with Coalbrookdale and Madeley. This contributed to the early industrial development in the Ironbridge Gorge, which is now part of a World Heritage Site.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Broseley

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
    Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust

    The Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust was an industrial heritage organisation which ran ten museums and managed multiple historic sites within the Ironbridge Gorge World Heritage Site in Shropshire, England, widely considered as the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution. Its assets are now managed by the National Trust.

    3.1 km · Museum service based in Shropshire, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Wenlock Priory

    Wenlock Priory, or St Milburga's Priory, is a ruined 12th-century monastery, located in Much Wenlock, Shropshire, at grid reference SJ625001. Roger de Montgomery re-founded the Priory as a Cluniac house between 1079 and 1082, on the site of an earlier 7th-century monastery.

    5.3 km · 12th century monastery in Shropshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Buildwas Abbey

    Buildwas Abbey was a Cistercian monastery located on the banks of the River Severn, at Buildwas in Shropshire, England - today about 2 miles west of Ironbridge. Founded by the local bishop in 1135, it was sparsely endowed at the outset but enjoyed several periods of growth and increasing wealth: notably under Abbot Ranulf in the second half of the 12th century and again from the mid-13th century, when large numbers of acquisitions were made from the local landed gentry.

    4.3 km · abbey · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Blists Hill Victorian Town

    Blists Hill Victorian Town is an open-air museum built on a former industrial complex located in Madeley, Telford and Wrekin, Shropshire, England. The museum attempts to recreate the sights, sounds and smells of a Victorian Shropshire town in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

    2.8 km · Open-air museum in Telford, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Hay Inclined Plane

    The Hay Inclined Plane is a canal inclined plane in the Ironbridge Gorge in Shropshire, with a height of 207 feet. It was located at the end of the Shropshire Canal, part of a network of canals that linked the industrial region of east Shropshire with the River Severn.

    2.2 km · canal inclined plane in the UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Albert Edward Bridge

    The Albert Edward Bridge is a railway bridge spanning the River Severn at Coalbrookdale in Shropshire, England.

    2.6 km · bridge in Shropshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Enginuity

    Enginuity is an interactive design and technology centre in Coalbrookdale, Shropshire, England. It was opened in 2002 making it the last new museum to be operated by the Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust before its transfer to its present owner, the National Trust, in 2026.

    1.8 km · Interactive museum in Shropshire, England · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Benthall Hall

    Benthall Hall is a 16th-century English country house in Benthall in the town of Broseley, Shropshire, England, and a few miles from the historic Ironbridge Gorge. It retains much of its fine oak interior, and an elaborate 17th-century staircase.

    2 km · Grade I listed historic house museum in Shropshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    St Leonard's Church, Linley

    St Leonard's Church is in the hamlet of Linley, Shropshire, England. It is a redundant church under the care of the Churches Conservation Trust.

    3.4 km · church in Shropshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    St Giles' Church, Barrow

    St Giles' Church is in the hamlet of Barrow, Shropshire, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Telford Severn Gorge, the archdeaconry of Ludlow, and the diocese of Hereford.

    2.4 km · church in Barrow, Shropshire, England, UK · Wikipedia

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Getting to Broseley

Airports
Birmingham (BHX), 53 km · East Midlands (EMA), 81 km · Manchester (MAN), 83 km
Stations
Spring Village railway station, 5.6 km
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Broseley
    42 km · quickest by road, 1h 15m · £6–8
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Broseley
    97 km · quickest by road, 2h 24m · £11–15
  • Manchester, Greater Manchester → Broseley
    98 km · quickest by road, 2h 45m · £12–16
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Broseley

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 Broseley. 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

    219 km
  2. 02
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    229 km
  3. 03
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    372 km
  4. 04
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    409 km
  5. 05
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    432 km

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Around it

Next door to Broseley

Broseley is 42 km from Birmingham, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Much Wenlocktown and civil parish in Shropshire, England5.5 km
  • Madeleytown and civil parish in Shropshire, England, now part of the new town of Telford3.6 km
  • Ironbridgevillage in Shropshire, England1.8 km
  • Coalbrookdalevillage in Telford and Wrekin, Shropshire, England3.1 km
  • Buildwasvillage and civil parish in Shropshire, England4.4 km
  • Barrowvillage and civil parish in Shropshire, England, UK2.4 km