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Fordbridge

Fordbridge is a civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Solihull in the West Midlands, England.

Fordbridge
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The place

Fordbridge is a civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Solihull in the West Midlands, England. It is part of the Chelmsley Wood estate, encompassing the area west of the River Cole. It lies within the historic boundaries of Warwickshire. According to the 2021 census, the parish had a population of 8,692.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Fordbridge

Airports
Birmingham (BHX), 3 km · East Midlands (EMA), 48 km · Manchester (MAN), 103 km
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Fordbridge
    66 km · quickest by road, 1h 23m · £7–9
  • Manchester, Greater Manchester → Fordbridge
    115 km · quickest by road, 2h 25m · £14–19
  • London → Fordbridge
    26 km · quickest by road, 1h 4m · £3.5–4.5
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Fordbridge

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 Fordbridge. 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 (county), 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

    202 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    248 km
  3. 03
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    409 km
  4. 04
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    445 km
  5. 05
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    460 km

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Around it

Next door to Fordbridge

Fordbridge is 10 km from Birmingham, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.