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What is there

Worth seeing in and around Castle Vale

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
    Birmingham and Fazeley Canal

    Canal in England, UK

    400 m · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    St Barnabas' Church, Erdington

    Grade II listed church in Birmingham, West Midlands, England, UK

    2.9 km · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Bromwich Castle

    Castle in Castle Bromwich, West Midlands, England, UK

    1.2 km · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Castle Bromwich Hall

    Grade I listed English country house in Castle Bromwich, Solihull, West Midlands, England, UK

    1.5 km · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    St Margaret's Church, Ward End

    Church in Ward End, Birmingham, West Midlands, England, UK

    3.6 km · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Erdington Abbey

    Church in Erdington, Birmingham, UK

    2.9 km · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Emmanuel Church, Wylde Green

    Church in Wylde Green, Sutton Coldfield, West Midlands, England, UK

    3 km · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    All Saints' Church

    Church in Shard End, Birmingham, West Midlands, England, UK

    3 km · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Shard End Lake

    Lake in the United Kingdom

    3.4 km · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Sentinel

    2000 sculpture by Tim Tolkien

    600 m · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Castle Vale

Airports
Birmingham (BHX), 8 km · East Midlands (EMA), 47 km · Manchester (MAN), 98 km
Stations
Stechford railway station, 4 km · Gravelly Hill railway station, 3.8 km · Water Orton railway station, 3.6 km · Wylde Green railway station, 3.8 km · Erdington railway station, 3 km
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Castle Vale
    65 km · quickest by road, 1h 25m · £6–9
  • Manchester, Greater Manchester → Castle Vale
    111 km · quickest by road, 2h 41m · £13–17
  • London → Castle Vale
    160 km · quickest by road, 3h 1m · £17–22
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Castle Vale

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 Castle Vale. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inHolyhead's ferry port ensures that the north of Wales is well connected with the whole West Midlands.

From Wikivoyage: West Midlands (county), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    206 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    247 km
  3. 03
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    404 km
  4. 04
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    440 km
  5. 05
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    462 km

If you know how people move in Castle Vale – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Castle Vale

Castle Vale is 8 km from Birmingham, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Erdingtonsuburb of Birmingham, England, UK2.8 km
  • Smith's Woodvillage in West Midlands, England, UK4 km
  • Minwortharea of Birmingham, England1.9 km
  • Shard Endsuburb and electoral ward in Birmingham, West Midlands, England2.9 km
  • Buckland Endsuburb in Birmingham, West Midlands, England, UK2.4 km
  • Gravelly Hillarea of Birmingham, England3.8 km