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Great Wyrley

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

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The place

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.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

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.

  1. 01
    Cannock 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
  2. 02
    St 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
  3. 03
    Great 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
  4. 04
    Church 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
  5. 05
    Salem 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
  6. 06
    Upper Landywood Methodist Church

    Church in Upper Landywood, Great Wyrley, South Staffordshire, England

    1.6 km · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    St 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
  8. 08
    St 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 Wyrley
    66 km · quickest by road, 1h 35m · £7–10
  • Manchester, Greater Manchester → Great Wyrley
    92 km · quickest by road, 2h 13m · £10–14
  • Liverpool → Great Wyrley
    105 km · quickest by road, 2h 24m · £12–16
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Not yet researched

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.

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

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    225 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    246 km
  3. 03
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    383 km
  4. 04
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    419 km
  5. 05
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    444 km

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

Around it

Next door to Great Wyrley

Great Wyrley is 21 km from Birmingham, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.