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Grimpo

Grimpo is a small hamlet in Shropshire, England.

Grimpo
Grimpo · Basile Morin
The place

Grimpo is a small hamlet in Shropshire, England. Its unusual name was formerly written Grimpool, and is possibly based on an Old English personal name. It developed as a settlement of squatter's cottages on the edge of unenclosed marshland.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Grimpo

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.

  1. 01
    Montgomery Canal

    The Montgomery Canal, known colloquially as "The Monty", is a partially restored canal in eastern Powys and northwest Shropshire. The canal runs 33 miles from the Llangollen Canal at Frankton Junction to Newtown via Llanymynech and Welshpool and crosses the England–Wales border.

    3.8 km · canal in Shropshire and Wales, United Kingdom · Wikipedia

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Getting to Grimpo

Airports
Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 56 km · Manchester (MAN), 73 km · Birmingham (BHX), 91 km
  • Liverpool → Grimpo
    64 km · quickest by road, 1h 45m · £7–10
  • Manchester, Greater Manchester → Grimpo
    86 km · quickest by road, 2h 16m · £11–15
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Grimpo
    81 km · quickest by road, 1h 50m · £9–12
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Grimpo

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 Grimpo. 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
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    219 km
  2. 02
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    264 km
  3. 03
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    337 km
  4. 04
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    373 km
  5. 05
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    396 km

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

Around it

Next door to Grimpo

  • West Feltonvillage and civil parish in Shropshire, England3 km
  • Bagley Marshvillage in Shropshire, United Kingdom3.3 km
  • Wykeyvillage in Shropshire, United Kingdom3.4 km
  • Bagleyvillage in Shropshire, England, UK3.8 km