Coreley
Coreley is a small, dispersed village and civil parish in south Shropshire, England, near to Clee Hill Village.
Coreley is a small, dispersed village and civil parish in south Shropshire, England, near to Clee Hill Village. It is situated approximately 30 miles (48 km) south west of Birmingham and just 4.5 miles (7.2 km) north east of Tenbury Wells.
The name Corely comes from the Old English corn meaning a crane/heron and lēah meaning a forest/wood. This translates to crane wood/farmland.
CORELEY, a parish in Cleobury-Mortimer district, Salop; under the Clee Hills, 3½ miles NNE of Tenbury r[ailway]. station, and 5 WSW of Cleobury-Mortimer. Post town, Tenbury. Acres, 2,175. Rated property, £1,490. Pop[ulation]., 515. Houses, 106. The property is divided among a few. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Hereford. Value, £280.* Patron, Rev. J. Burnett Stuart. The church is of brick, and ancient, with tower and spire; and was reported in 1859 as bad.
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Worth seeing in and around Coreley
One place 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.
- 01St John the Baptist's Church, Hope Bagot
St John the Baptist's Church is in the village of Hope Bagot, Shropshire, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Ludlow, the archdeaconry of Ludlow, and the diocese of Hereford.
2.9 km · church in Hope Bagot, Shropshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Coreley
- Airports
- Birmingham (BHX), 56 km · East Midlands (EMA), 98 km · Bristol (BRS), 109 km
- Birmingham, West Midlands → Coreley47 km · quickest by road, 1h 38m · £5–7
- Nottingham, Leicestershire → Coreley116 km · quickest by road, 3h 1m · £13–17
- Bristol → Coreley101 km · quickest by road, 2h 52m · £13–17
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No local-transport research exists yet for Coreley
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 Coreley. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inThey continue to Leominster, Hereford, Abergavenny, Newport, Cardiff, Port Talbot, Neath, Swansea, Llanelli, Carmarthen, Haverfordwest, Milford Haven and Fishguard, for ferries to Rosslare.
- Get inTrains from Holyhead (for Dublin ferries) run every two hours and take 3 hr 10 min via Llanfairpwll (etcetera etcetera) and stations along the north Wales coast, Chester, Wrexham, Chirk and Shrewsbury then as above through Ludlow to Cardiff.
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Coreley is 47 km from Birmingham, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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