Great Bolas
Great Bolas, or Bolas Magna, is a village in the civil parish of Waters Upton, in the Telford and Wrekin borough of Shropshire, England, It is situated north-west of Newport, and about eight miles north of Telford.
Great Bolas, or Bolas Magna, is a village in the civil parish of Waters Upton, in the Telford and Wrekin borough of Shropshire, England, It is situated north-west of Newport, and about eight miles north of Telford. It is situated at the confluence of the Tern and the small River Meese. There is a hamlet called Little Bolas a short distance to the west. Another hamlet called Meeson, south of the River Meese, was formerly a separate township of Great Bolas parish.
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Worth seeing in and around Great Bolas
One place 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.
- 01Peplow Hall
Peplow Hall is a privately owned 11,635 square feet, 18th-century mansion at Peplow, near Hodnet, Shropshire. It is a Grade II* listed building.
3.4 km · 18th-century country house in Shropshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Great Bolas
- Airports
- Birmingham (BHX), 64 km · Manchester (MAN), 64 km · Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 65 km
- Birmingham, West Midlands → Great Bolas54 km · quickest by road, 1h 22m · £6–8
- Manchester, Greater Manchester → Great BolasTrain, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
- Liverpool → Great BolasTrain, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
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No local-transport research exists yet for Great Bolas
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 Great Bolas. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
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Next door to Great Bolas
Great Bolas is 54 km from Birmingham, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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