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Fordhouses

Fordhouses is a suburb of Wolverhampton, West Midlands, England.

Fordhouses
Fordhouses · Rick Massey
The place

Fordhouses is a suburb of Wolverhampton, West Midlands, England. It is situated to the north of the city centre, adjacent to the border with Staffordshire, within the Bushbury North ward of Wolverhampton City Council. It is the most northerly part of the city alongside Pendeford, adjacent to the M54 motorway.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Fordhouses

6 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
    Hilton Hall

    Hilton Hall is an 18th-century mansion house now in use as an Office and Business Centre at Hilton, near Wolverhampton, in Staffordshire. It is a Grade I listed building.

    3.9 km · Grade I listed building in South Staffordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Moseley Old Hall

    Moseley Old Hall is located in Fordhouses, north of Wolverhampton in the United Kingdom. It is notable as one of the hiding places of Charles II during his escape to France following defeat at the Battle of Worcester in 1651.

    1.8 km · historic house and museum in Featherstone, Staffordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    St Paul's Church, Coven

    St Paul's Church, Coven is a Grade II listed parish church in the Church of England in Coven, Staffordshire

    3.1 km · church in Coven, South Staffordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Christ Church, Wolverhampton

    Christ Church, Wolverhampton is a former parish church in the Church of England in Wolverhampton

    3.8 km · church in Wolverhampton, England · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Aldersley Junction

    Aldersley Junction is the name of the canal junction where the Birmingham Main Line Canal terminates and meets the Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal near to Oxley, north Wolverhampton, West Midlands, England. It opened in 1772.

    2.8 km · canal junction in Wolverhampton, West Midlands, England, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Autherley Junction

    Autherley Junction is the name of the canal junction where the Shropshire Union Canal terminates and meets the Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal near to Oxley, north Wolverhampton, West Midlands, England. It dates from 1835, when the Birmingham and Liverpool Junction Canal opened, prior to it becoming part of the Shropshire Union network.

    2.1 km · canal junction in the uk · Wikipedia

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Go there

Getting to Fordhouses

Airports
Birmingham (BHX), 32 km · East Midlands (EMA), 58 km · Manchester (MAN), 81 km
Stations
Dunstall Park railway station, 3.3 km · Brinsford Parkway railway station, 2.4 km · Bushbury railway station, 2.4 km
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Fordhouses
    75 km · quickest by road, 1h 46m · £9–11
  • Manchester, Greater Manchester → Fordhouses
    95 km · quickest by road, 2h 13m · £11–14
  • Liverpool → Fordhouses
    104 km · quickest by road, 2h 24m · £12–16
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Fordhouses

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 Fordhouses. 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

    223 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    238 km
  3. 03
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    382 km
  4. 04
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    418 km
  5. 05
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    442 km

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

Around it

Next door to Fordhouses

Fordhouses is 22 km from Birmingham, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Featherstonevillage and civil parish in Staffordshire, United Kingdom2.6 km
  • Bilbrookvillage in Staffordshire, England, UK3.3 km
  • Covenvillage in Staffordshire, England, UK2.4 km
  • Oxleysuburb of Wolverhampton, West Midlands, England1.9 km
  • Pendefordsuburb of Wolverhampton, West Midlands, England1.7 km
  • Bushburysuburb of Wolverhampton, West Midlands, United Kingdom1.4 km