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Dudley

Dudley is a market town in the West Midlands, England, 6 miles (9.7 km) southeast of Wolverhampton and 8 miles (13 km) northwest of Birmingham.

Dudley
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The place

Dudley is a market town in the West Midlands, England, 6 miles (9.7 km) southeast of Wolverhampton and 8 miles (13 km) northwest of Birmingham. Historically part of Worcestershire, the town is the administrative centre of the Metropolitan Borough of Dudley. In the 2011 census, it had a population of 79,379. The wider Metropolitan Borough had a population of 312,900. In 2014, the borough council adopted a slogan describing Dudley as the capital of the Black Country, a title by which it had long been informally known.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Dudley

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.

    400 m · 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.

    3.5 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.

    400 m · zoo in West Midlands, England · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Himley Hall

    Himley Hall is an early 17th-century country house situated in Staffordshire, England. It is situated in the south of the county in the small village of Himley, near to the town of Dudley and the city of Wolverhampton.

    5.8 km · country house in Staffordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    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.

    2.7 km · Canal in and around Birmingham , England · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    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".

    5 km · brewery in Brierley Hill · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    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.

    2.3 km · canal in the UK · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Church of St. Edmund, Dudley

    The Church of Saint Edmund is a Grade II* listed Anglo-Catholic parish church on Castle Street in the town of Dudley in the West Midlands County of England. It is known locally as "Bottom Church", as opposed to St Thomas's parish church in High Street which is known as "Top Church".

    100 m · church in Dudley, West Midlands, England, UK · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Dudley Canal

    The Dudley Canal is a canal passing through Dudley in the West Midlands of England. The canal is part of the English and Welsh network of connected navigable inland waterways and forms part of the popular Stourport Ring narrowboat cruising route.

    1.9 km · canal in the West Midlands, England · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Pensnett Canal

    The Pensnett Canal, also called Lord Ward's Canal, was a private 1.25 miles long canal near Brierley Hill, West Midlands, England, which opened in 1840 and served the industrial enterprises of Lord Dudley's Estate. The engineer was Mathew Frost.

    3.1 km · canal in the UK · Wikipedia

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Go there

Getting to Dudley

Airports
Birmingham (BHX), 23 km · East Midlands (EMA), 62 km · Manchester (MAN), 94 km
Stations
Rowley Regis railway station, 5.1 km · Tipton railway station, 2.4 km · Sandwell and Dudley railway station, 4.7 km · Old Hill railway station, 4.8 km · Cradley Heath railway station, 4.6 km
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Dudley
    81 km · quickest by road, 1h 54m · £9–12
  • Manchester, Greater Manchester → Dudley
    110 km · quickest by road, 2h 38m · £12–16
  • Liverpool → Dudley
    118 km · quickest by road, 2h 26m · £14–18
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Dudley

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inHolyhead's ferry port ensures that the north of Wales is well connected with the whole West Midlands.

From Wikivoyage: West Midlands (region), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    210 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    232 km
  3. 03
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    395 km
  4. 04
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    431 km
  5. 05
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    455 km

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

Around it

Next door to Dudley

Dudley is 13 km from Birmingham, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Sandwellmetropolitan borough in the West Midlands of England4.4 km
  • Oldburytown in the West Midlands in England4.5 km
  • Tiptontown in the borough of Sandwell, West Midlands, England1.7 km
  • Black Countryarea of the West Midlands in England5.6 km
  • Brierley Hilltown in the Metropolitan Borough of Dudley, West Midlands, England4.6 km
  • Rowley Registown in England3.8 km