Great Wyrley
Great Wyrley is a village and civil parish in the South Staffordshire district of Staffordshire, England.

Great Wyrley is a village and civil parish in the South Staffordshire district of Staffordshire, England. It forms a built-up area with nearby Cheslyn Hay, Churchbridge, Landywood and Little Wyrley. It lies 6 miles (9.7 km) north of Walsall and a similar distance from Wolverhampton. Cannock is directly north of the village. It had a population of 11,060 at the 2011 census.
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Worth seeing in and around Great Wyrley
8 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.
- 01Cannock Extension Canal
The current Cannock Extension Canal is a 1.8-mile canal in England. It runs from Pelsall Junction on the Wyrley and Essington Canal, north to Norton Canes Docks and forms part of the Birmingham Canal Navigations.
2.8 km · canal in the UK · Wikipedia - 02St Mark's
St Mark's is the parish church of Great Wyrley, South Staffordshire, England. It is known for having had the first South Asian vicar of any Church of England parish, Shapurji Edalji, and for its association with Edalji's son George, who was falsely convicted on a charge of injuring a pony, and cleared after the intervention of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
1.2 km · church at Great Wyrley, Staffordshire, England · Wikipedia - 03Great Wyrley Wesley Methodist Church
Great Wyrley is a village and civil parish in the South Staffordshire district of Staffordshire, England. It forms a built-up area with nearby Cheslyn Hay, Churchbridge, Landywood and Little Wyrley.
300 m · church in Great Wyrley, South Staffordshire, England · Wikipedia - 04Church of St James
St James the Great Church is the parish church of Norton Canes in the Cannock Chase District of Staffordshire, England. It is located on Church Road, a short distance from the village centre.
1.9 km · church in Norton Canes, Staffordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 05Salem Church
Cheslyn Hay is a village and civil parish in the South Staffordshire district of Staffordshire, England. It is 3 miles south of Cannock, 10 miles north of Walsall, 9 miles northeast of Wolverhampton, and 13 miles south of Stafford.
1.5 km · church in Cheslyn Hay, South Staffordshire, England · Wikipedia - 06Upper Landywood Methodist Church
Church in Upper Landywood, Great Wyrley, South Staffordshire, England
1.6 km · Wikipedia - 07St Luke's Church, Cannock
St Luke's Church, Cannock is a Grade II* listed parish church in Cannock, Staffordshire, England. It is an active place of worship and community hub in the town centre.
3.5 km · church in Cannock Chase, UK · Wikipedia - 08St Andrew's Church
Church in Great Wyrley, South Staffordshire, Staffordshire, England
500 m · Wikipedia
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Getting to Great Wyrley
- Airports
- Birmingham (BHX), 29 km · East Midlands (EMA), 50 km · Manchester (MAN), 79 km
- Stations
- Bloxwich North railway station, 3.8 km · Cannock railway station, 3.1 km · Landywood railway station, 800 m · Norton Lakeside Halt railway station, 4 km · Brownhills West railway station, 3.9 km
- Nottingham, Leicestershire → Great Wyrley66 km · quickest by road, 1h 35m · £7–10
- Manchester, Greater Manchester → Great Wyrley92 km · quickest by road, 2h 13m · £10–14
- Liverpool → Great Wyrley105 km · quickest by road, 2h 24m · £12–16
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No local-transport research exists yet for Great Wyrley
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 Wyrley. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
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Next door to Great Wyrley
Great Wyrley is 21 km from Birmingham, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Cannocktown in Staffordshire, England3.4 km
- Norton Canesvillage in Staffordshire, England, UK4 km
- Cheslyn Hayvillage in Staffordshire, England, UK1.8 km
- Bridgtownvillage in Staffordshire, England, UK2.3 km
- Springhillhamlet in South Staffordshire, England3.1 km
- Brownhills Westvillage in West Midlands, England3.9 km