Hanley Swan
Hanley Swan is a small village in the English county of Worcestershire.

Hanley Swan is a small village in the English county of Worcestershire. It lies in the Malvern Hills district, between the towns of Malvern and Upton-upon-Severn. Together with the nearby village of Hanley Castle, its population is about 1500. The traditional English village centre includes a village green and pond, a pub, a Social Club and a village stores. Hanley Swan won the 2009 Calor Herefordshire and Worcestershire Village of the Year competition, a heat of the national Village of the year competition. Hanley Swan was an inspiration for the setting of the novel Black Swan Green by David Mitchell.
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Worth seeing in and around Hanley Swan
4 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.
- 01The Rhydd
The Rhydd is an English country house and hamlet, alongside the River Severn, near the village of Hanley Castle, Worcestershire, about halfway between Malvern and the small town of Upton-upon-Severn. The house is now a care home.
3.1 km · house in Worcestershire, England · Wikipedia - 02Roman Catholic Church of Our Lady and St Alphonsus, Hanley Swan
Our Lady and St Alphonsus Church or Our Blessed Lady and St Alphonsus Church is a Catholic parish church in Blackmore Park, near Hanley Swan, Malvern Hills District, Worcestershire, England. It was built from 1844 to 1846, before the reestablishment of the Catholic dioceses.
800 m · Hanley Castle, Malvern Hills, Worcestershire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 03Three Counties Showground
The Three Counties Showground is a showground site in Malvern, Worcestershire, England, covering 90 acres owned by the Three Counties Agricultural Society. The Three Counties refers to the agrarian counties of Gloucestershire, Herefordshire and Worcestershire.
2.6 km · showground site in England · Wikipedia - 04Malvern Hills Science Park
Malvern Hills Science Park is located on a 10-acre site in the Barnards Green suburb of Malvern, Worcestershire, England. It is a partnership between a number of partners including: QinetiQ, Malvern Hills District Council, Worcestershire County Council, and the West Midlands Regional Development Agency, making a total of around 40 companies as of 2019.
3.5 km · science park in Worcestershire, England · Wikipedia
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Getting to Hanley Swan
- Airports
- Birmingham (BHX), 55 km · Bristol (BRS), 84 km · East Midlands (EMA), 105 km
- Stations
- Malvern Wells railway station, 3.6 km
- Birmingham, West Midlands → Hanley Swan51 km · quickest by road, 1h 23m · £6–8
- Bristol → Hanley Swan73 km · quickest by road, 1h 44m · £9–11
- Nottingham, Leicestershire → Hanley Swan123 km · quickest by road, 2h 39m · £13–18
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No local-transport research exists yet for Hanley Swan
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 Hanley Swan. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
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Next door to Hanley Swan
Hanley Swan is 51 km from Birmingham, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Wellandvillage and civil parish in Worcestershire, England, UK3.3 km
- Guarlfordvillage in Worcestershire, England, UK2.6 km
- Hanley Castlevillage in Worcestershire, UK2.8 km
- Barnards Greenvillage in Worcestershire, England, UK3.8 km
- Poolbrookvillage and suburb of Malvern, Worcestershire, England, UK2.9 km