Cradley Heath

Worth seeing in and around Cradley Heath

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
   Dudley Castle

   Dudley Castle is a ruined fortification in the town of Dudley, West Midlands, England. Originally, a wooden motte and bailey castle built soon after the Norman Conquest, it was rebuilt as a stone fortification during the twelfth century but subsequently demolished on the orders of Henry II of England.

   4.6 km · Grade I listed castle in Dudley, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
2. 02
   Tividale Tirupathy Balaji Temple

   The Shri Venkateswara Temple is a Hindu temple located on a 30-acre site in Tividale, a suburb of Birmingham in the United Kingdom. It is dedicated in the Vaishnava tradition to Venkateswara, a form of the Hindu god Vishnu.

   5.6 km · Hindu temple in Tividale, West Midlands, England · Wikipedia
3. 03
   Dudley Zoo

   Dudley Zoo & Castle is a 40-acre zoo within a 200-acre densely-wooded site located within the grounds of Dudley Castle in the town of Dudley, in the Black Country region of the West Midlands, England. The zoo opened to the public on 18 May 1937.

   4.6 km · zoo in West Midlands, England · Wikipedia
4. 04
   The Leasowes

   The Leasowes is a 57-hectare estate in Halesowen, historically in the county of Shropshire, later Worcestershire, England, comprising house and gardens. The parkland is now listed Grade I on English Heritage's Register of Parks and Gardens and the home of the Halesowen Golf Club.

   3.9 km · house in Halesowen, West Midlands, England, UK · Wikipedia
5. 05
   St Thomas' Church, Stourbridge

   St Thomas' Church, Stourbridge, is a Grade I listed parish church in the Church of England in Stourbridge, West Midlands County, England.

   5.1 km · Grade I listed church in Dudley, West Midlands, England, UK · Wikipedia
6. 06
   Stourbridge Canal

   The Stourbridge Canal is a canal in the West Midlands of England. It links the Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal with the Dudley Canal, and hence, via the Birmingham Canal Navigations, to Birmingham and the Black Country.

   5.4 km · canal in West Midlands, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
7. 07
   Haden Hill Park

   Haden Hill Park is at Haden Hill, between Halesowen and Old Hill in the West Midlands, England, on the southern edge of the Black Country. Within its grounds are the sixteenth and seventeenth century Haden Hall, the Victorian Haden Hill House and Corngreaves Nature Reserve.

   1.4 km · public park in Cradley Heath, Sandwell, England · Wikipedia
8. 08
   Daniel Batham and Son Ltd

   Bathams is a brewery in Brierley Hill, West Midlands, England established in 1877 in a former slaughterhouse. The brewery is described by the CAMRA Good Beer Guide as "A classic Black country small brewery".

   3.2 km · brewery in Brierley Hill · Wikipedia
9. 09
   Black Country Living Museum

   The Black Country Living Museum is an open-air museum of rebuilt historic buildings in Dudley, West Midlands, England. It is located in the centre of the Black Country, 10 miles west of Birmingham.

   5.4 km · open-air museum of manufacturing history in Dudley, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
10. 10
    Bumble Hole Branch Canal

    The present day Bumble Hole Branch Canal and Boshboil Branch surround Bumble Hole, a water-filled clay pit, in Bumble Hole and Warren's Hall Nature Reserve, Rowley Regis, West Midlands, England. They formed a looped part of the original Dudley No.

    2.2 km · canal in the UK · Wikipedia

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Getting to Cradley Heath

Airports

Birmingham (BHX), 23 km · East Midlands (EMA), 64 km · Manchester (MAN), 98 km

Stations

Rowley Regis railway station, 3.3 km · Lye railway station, 2.9 km · Stourbridge Junction railway station, 4.6 km · Stourbridge Town railway station, 4.7 km · Old Hill railway station, 1.6 km

• Nottingham, Leicestershire → Cradley Heath

  82 km · quickest by road, 1h 52m · £9–12
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• Manchester, Greater Manchester → Cradley Heath

  113 km · quickest by road, 2h 37m · £13–17
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• Liverpool → Cradley Heath

  120 km · quickest by road, 2h 25m · £14–19
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