Donnington

Worth seeing in and around Donnington

4 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
   Wombridge Canal

   The Wombridge Canal was a tub-boat canal in Shropshire, England, built to carry coal and iron ore from mines in the area to the furnaces where the iron was extracted. It opened in 1788, and parts of it were taken over by the Shrewsbury Canal Company in 1792, who built an inclined plane at Trench.

   1.9 km · canal in the UK · Wikipedia
2. 02
   Sutherland Monument

   The Lilleshall Monument, also known as the Sutherland Monument, is a 21-metre stone obelisk erected in 1833 on Lilleshall Hill overlooking the village of Lilleshall in Shropshire. Commemorating George Leveson-Gower, 1st Duke of Sutherland, the monument is an ashlar obelisk on square plinth, standing on stepped base.

   3.4 km · monument in Lilleshall and Donnington, Telford and Wrekin, Shropshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
3. 03
   Lilleshall Abbey

   Lilleshall Abbey was an Augustinian abbey in Shropshire, England, today located 6 miles north of Telford. It was founded between 1145 and 1148 and followed the austere customs and observance of the Abbey of Arrouaise in northern France.

   3.2 km · monastery in Shropshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
4. 04
   Telford Theatre

   Telford Theatre, formerly Oakengates Town Hall, is an events venue in Limes Walk in the town of Oakengates in Shropshire, England.

   2.4 km · theatre in Oakengates, Telford, England, UK · Wikipedia

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Getting to Donnington

Airports

Birmingham (BHX), 55 km · Manchester (MAN), 71 km · Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 74 km

Stations

Oakengates railway station, 2.6 km · Telford Central railway station, 3.8 km · New Hadley Halt railway station, 3 km

• Birmingham, West Midlands → Donnington

  60 km · quickest by road, 1h 46m · £8–11
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• Manchester, Greater Manchester → Donnington

  174 km · quickest by road, 3h 26m · £20–26
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• Liverpool → Donnington

  183 km · quickest by road, 3h 36m · £21–28
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No local-transport research exists yet for Donnington

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

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