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Darlaston

Darlaston is an industrial town in the Metropolitan Borough of Walsall in the West Midlands of England.

Darlaston
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The place

Darlaston is an industrial town in the Metropolitan Borough of Walsall in the West Midlands of England. It is located near Bilston, Walsall, Wednesbury, Willenhall and Tipton. It was historically part of Staffordshire.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Darlaston

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
    University of Wolverhampton

    The University of Wolverhampton is a public university in Wolverhampton, England, located on four campuses across the West Midlands, Shropshire and Staffordshire. Originally founded in 1827 as the Wolverhampton Tradesmen's and Mechanics' Institute, the university was subject to a series of merges, incorporations, and expansions with other local colleges, one of which occurred under the supervision of Prince George, Duke of Kent.

    5.8 km · university in Wolverhampton, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Bescot Stadium

    Bescot Stadium, currently known as the Pallet-Track Bescot Stadium for sponsorship reasons, is a football stadium in the area of Bescot, Walsall, West Midlands, England. With a capacity of 11,300, it is the current home ground of Walsall and Aston Villa Women.

    3.8 km · football stadium · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    St Peter's Collegiate Church

    St Peter's Collegiate Church is located in central Wolverhampton, England. For many centuries it was a chapel royal and from 1480 a royal peculiar, independent of the Diocese of Lichfield and even the Province of Canterbury.

    5.8 km · church in Wolverhampton, West Midlands, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Wolverhampton Art Gallery

    Wolverhampton Art Gallery is located in Wolverhampton, England. The building was funded and constructed by local contractor Philip Horsman, and built on land provided by the municipal authority.

    5.8 km · art gallery in West Midlands, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    The New Art Gallery Walsall

    The New Art Gallery Walsall is a modern and contemporary art gallery in the town of Walsall, in the West Midlands, England. It was built with £21 million of public funding, including £15.75 million from the UK National Lottery and additional money from the European Regional Development Fund and City Challenge.

    4.4 km · Modern and contemporary art gallery in Walsall, England, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    BCN Main Line

    The BCN Main Line, or Birmingham Canal Navigations Main Line is the evolving route of the Birmingham Canal between Birmingham and Wolverhampton in England. The name Main Line was used to distinguish the main Birmingham to Wolverhampton route from the many other canals and branches built or acquired by the Birmingham Canal Navigations company.

    4.6 km · Canal in and around Birmingham , England · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    East Park

    East Park is a public park in Wolverhampton, England. Situated off Hickman Avenue, near Monmore Green stadium, the park has good transport links to the city centre.

    3.7 km · park in Wolverhampton, West Midlands, England, UK · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Wednesbury Old Canal

    Wednesbury Old Canal is part of the Birmingham Canal Navigations in the English West Midlands. It opened in 1769, and although parts of it were abandoned in 1955 and 1960, the section between Pudding Green Junction and Ryder's Green Junction is navigable, as it provides a link to the Walsall Canal.

    5.6 km · canal in the West Midlands, United Kingdom · 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.

    5.9 km · open-air museum of manufacturing history in Dudley, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Holy Trinity Church, Heath Town

    Holy Trinity Church, Heath Town, is in Heath Town, a district of Wolverhampton, West Midlands, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Wolverhampton, the archdeaconry of Walsall, and the diocese of Lichfield.

    4.8 km · church in Heath Town, Wolverhampton, West Midlands, England, UK · Wikipedia

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Getting to Darlaston

Airports
Birmingham (BHX), 24 km · East Midlands (EMA), 56 km · Manchester (MAN), 88 km
Stations
Wolverhampton railway station, 5.4 km · Tipton railway station, 4.7 km · Walsall railway station, 4.4 km · Bloxwich railway station, 5.7 km · Dudley Port railway station, 5.1 km
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Darlaston
    73 km · quickest by road, 1h 42m · £8–11
  • Manchester, Greater Manchester → Darlaston
    103 km · quickest by road, 2h 19m · £11–15
  • Liverpool → Darlaston
    113 km · quickest by road, 2h 30m · £13–17
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Darlaston

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 Darlaston. 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
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    216 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    238 km
  3. 03
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    390 km
  4. 04
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    426 km
  5. 05
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    451 km

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

Around it

Next door to Darlaston

Darlaston is 14 km from Birmingham, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Wolverhamptoncity in the West Midlands, England, United Kingdom5.6 km
  • Walsalltown in West Midlands, England, UK4.6 km
  • Tiptontown in the borough of Sandwell, West Midlands, England5.4 km
  • Wednesburytown in West Midlands, England2.6 km
  • Black Countryarea of the West Midlands in England2.5 km
  • Willenhalltown in the Metropolitan Borough of Walsall, in the West Midlands, England1.4 km