Brownhills

Worth seeing in and around Brownhills

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
   Chasewater

   Chasewater is a reservoir located in the parish of Burntwood and the district of Lichfield in Staffordshire, England. Originally known as Norton Pool and Cannock Chase Reservoir, it was created as a canal feeder reservoir in 1797.

   2 km · reservoir in Staffordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
2. 02
   Prince's Park

   Prince's Park is located in the Staffordshire town of Burntwood and is featured in the Guinness Book of Records for being the smallest park in the United Kingdom. It was created to commemorate the marriage of Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, and Princess Alexandra of Denmark.

   4.4 km · park in United Kingdom · Wikipedia
3. 03
   Cannock Extension Canal

   The current Cannock Extension Canal is a 1.8-mile canal in England. It runs from Pelsall Junction on the Wyrley and Essington Canal, north to Norton Canes Docks and forms part of the Birmingham Canal Navigations.

   2.7 km · canal in the UK · Wikipedia
4. 04
   Wyrley and Essington Canal

   The Wyrley and Essington Canal, known locally as "the Curly Wyrley", is a canal in the English Midlands. As built it ran from Wolverhampton to Huddlesford Junction near Lichfield, with a number of branches: some parts are currently derelict.

   800 m · Narrow canal in the Midlands, England · Wikipedia
5. 05
   Lichfield Canal

   The Lichfield Canal, as it is now known, was historically a part of the Wyrley and Essington Canal, being the section of that canal from Ogley Junction at Brownhills on the northern Birmingham Canal Navigations to Huddlesford Junction, east of Lichfield, on the Coventry Canal, a length of 7 miles. The branch was abandoned in 1955, along with several other branches of the Wyrley and Essington, and much of it was filled in.

   5.4 km · English canal under restoration · Wikipedia
6. 06
   St Peter's Roman Catholic Church, Bloxwich

   Bloxwich is a market town in the Metropolitan Borough of Walsall, West Midlands, England. It is located between the towns of Walsall, Cannock, Willenhall and Brownhills.

   5.9 km · Roman Catholic church in Bloxwich, West Midlands, England, UK · Wikipedia
7. 07
   Aston Manor Road Transport Museum

   Aldridge Transport Museum, home to the Aston Manor Road Transport Museum's collection of vehicles is an independent transport museum in Aldridge, Walsall, England. Until December 2011 the museum occupied the former Birmingham Corporation Tramways Witton Tram Depot, in the Aston district of Birmingham, run by a registered charity.

   4 km · transport museum in Aldridge, England · Wikipedia
8. 08
   St. Mary's Church, Aldridge

   St. Mary's Church is the parish church of Aldridge, a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Walsall, England.

   4.9 km · church in Aldridge, West Midlands, England, UK · Wikipedia
9. 09
   St Andrew's Church

   Church in Great Wyrley, South Staffordshire, Staffordshire, England

   5.8 km · Wikipedia
10. 10
    St. Michael and All Angels Pelsall Parish Church

    St Michael & All Angels Church is an Anglican parish church in Pelsall, West Midlands, England. It was built in 1844 to replace an older church on Paradise Lane and was completed in 1889.

    3.5 km · church in Pelsall, West Midlands · Wikipedia

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Getting to Brownhills

Airports

Birmingham (BHX), 25 km · East Midlands (EMA), 46 km · Manchester (MAN), 81 km

Stations

Aldridge railway station, 5.1 km · Brownhills Watling Street railway station, 1 km · Rushall (West Midlands) railway station, 5.1 km · Pelsall railway station, 3.3 km · Brownhills railway station, 300 m

• Nottingham, Leicestershire → Brownhills

  64 km · quickest by road, 1h 29m · £7–9
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• Manchester, Greater Manchester → Brownhills

  96 km · quickest by road, 2h 21m · £11–15
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• Liverpool → Brownhills

  111 km · quickest by road, 2h 33m · £13–17
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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 Brownhills. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

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