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Catherine-de-Barnes

Catherine-de-Barnes is a small village within the Metropolitan Borough of Solihull in the English county of West Midlands.

The place

Catherine-de-Barnes is a small village within the Metropolitan Borough of Solihull in the English county of West Midlands. It is situated about 2.25 miles east of Solihull town centre, in the civil parish of Hampton in Arden, and 2 miles west of Hampton village. Population as taken in the 2011 census can be found under Bickenhill.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Catherine-de-Barnes

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
    bp pulse LIVE

    bp pulse LIVE is a multipurpose indoor arena located at the National Exhibition Centre in Solihull, England, just outside Birmingham. It has a capacity of 15,685 seats.

    3.9 km · arena in Solihull near Birmingham, England · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    National Motorcycle Museum

    The National Motorcycle Museum occupies an 8-acre site in Bickenhill, Solihull, England and holds the world's largest collection of British motorcycles. In addition to over 1,000 motorcycles, which cover a century of motorcycle manufacture, the museum developed award-winning conference facilities in 1985.

    3.4 km · motorcycle museum in West Midlands, England · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Damson Park

    Damson Park is an association football stadium in Solihull, West Midlands, England. It was the new home of Solihull Borough following their departure from their original Widney Lane Ground.

    2.4 km · stadium · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    St. Alphege's Church

    St Alphege Church, Solihull, is a medieval parish church in the Church of England in Solihull, West Midlands.

    2.8 km · church in Solihull, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Knowle Parish Church

    Knowle Parish Church is a Grade I listed parish church in the Church of England in Knowle, West Midlands.

    3.6 km · church in Knowle, West Midlands, England, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Hampton in Arden packhorse bridge

    Hampton in Arden packhorse bridge crosses the River Blythe near Hampton in Arden in the West Midlands of England, between Birmingham and Coventry. Dating from the 15th century, it is the only bridge of its kind in the area now covered by the West Midlands, and is a grade II* listed building and a scheduled monument.

    3.4 km · packhorse bridge in Berkswell/Hampton in Arden, West Midlands, England, UK · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    St Nicholas' Church, Elmdon

    St Nicholas’ Church, Elmdon is a Grade II listed Church of England parish church in Birmingham.

    3 km · church in Elmdon, West Midlands, England, UK · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Elmdon Park

    Elmdon Park is a park and local nature reserve in Elmdon, Solihull, West Midlands. It was established in 1944 when the house and grounds of the derelict Elmdon Hall were bought up by the then Solihull Urban District Council.

    3 km · park in Solihull, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Touchwood

    Touchwood is a shopping centre in Solihull, West Midlands, England.

    3 km · Shopping centre in Solihull, West Midlands, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Roman Catholic Church of Saint Augustine of Canterbury

    St Augustine of England Church or St Augustine's Church is a Catholic parish church in Solihull, West Midlands, England. It was built from 1838 to 1839, eleven years before the reestablishment of the Catholic dioceses in 1850.

    3 km · church building in Solihull, West Midlands, England, UK · 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.

Go there

Getting to Catherine-de-Barnes

Airports
Birmingham (BHX), 4 km · East Midlands (EMA), 53 km · Manchester (MAN), 109 km
Stations
Birmingham Airport, 3.8 km · Birmingham International railway station, 3.5 km · Hampton-in-Arden railway station, 2.8 km · AirRail Link, 3.6 km · Widney Manor railway station, 3.6 km
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Catherine-de-Barnes
    71 km · quickest by road, 1h 29m · £7–10
  • London → Catherine-de-Barnes
    150 km · quickest by road, 2h 57m · £16–22
  • Manchester, Greater Manchester → Catherine-de-Barnes
    122 km · quickest by road, 2h 27m · £14–19
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Catherine-de-Barnes

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 Catherine-de-Barnes. 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

    195 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    244 km
  3. 03
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    415 km
  4. 04
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    451 km
  5. 05
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    461 km

If you know how people move in Catherine-de-Barnes – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Catherine-de-Barnes

Catherine-de-Barnes is 13 km from Birmingham, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Solihulltown in the West Midlands of England2.4 km
  • Hampton in Ardenvillage and civil parish in Solihull, West Midlands, England, UK2.9 km
  • Barstonvillage in West Midlands, England, UK3.6 km
  • Knowlevillage in West Midlands, UK3.6 km
  • Elmdonvillage in West Midlands, England, United Kingdom2.8 km