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Cwm Head

Cwm Head is a hamlet in Shropshire, England.

The place

Cwm Head is a hamlet in Shropshire, England. The name is part-Welsh, part-English and means "Head of the Valley".

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Cwm Head

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.

  1. 01
    Woolston

    Woolston, in the south of the county of Shropshire, England, is a hamlet located in the parish of Wistanstow, one mile northwest of that village, near Craven Arms. In the mediaeval period the name was variously spelt Wolfreston, Wolureston and Wylfriston; the Domesday Book survey recorded that in 1066 it had been held by Spirtes the priest along with Wistanstow.

    1.4 km · village between Church Stretton and Craven Arms, Shropshire, England, UK · Wikipedia

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Getting to Cwm Head

Airports
Birmingham (BHX), 75 km · Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 94 km · Manchester (MAN), 103 km
Stations
Wistanstow Halt railway station, 3.5 km
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Cwm Head
    64 km · quickest by road, 1h 51m · £9–12
  • Liverpool → Cwm Head
    102 km · quickest by road, 2h 34m · £12–15
  • Manchester, Greater Manchester → Cwm Head
    117 km · quickest by road, 3h 4m · £13–17
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Cwm Head

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

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    192 km
  2. 02
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    227 km
  3. 03
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    374 km
  4. 04
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    410 km
  5. 05
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    432 km

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

Around it

Next door to Cwm Head

  • Acton Scottvillage and civil parish in Shropshire, England, UK3.5 km
  • Wistanstowvillage and civil parish in Shropshire, England, UK3.1 km
  • Myndtownvillage and civil parish in Shropshire, England, UK3.4 km
  • Little Strettonvillage in Shropshire, England, UK3.6 km
  • Alcastonvillage in Shropshire, United Kingdom3.7 km
  • Bushmoorvillage in Shropshire, United Kingdom1.6 km