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Hanley Swan

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

Hanley Swan
Hanley Swan · Wikimedia Commons
The place

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.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

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.

  1. 01
    The 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
  2. 02
    Roman 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
  3. 03
    Three 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
  4. 04
    Malvern 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

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Go there

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 Swan
    51 km · quickest by road, 1h 23m · £6–8
  • Bristol → Hanley Swan
    73 km · quickest by road, 1h 44m · £9–11
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Hanley Swan
    123 km · quickest by road, 2h 39m · £13–18
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Not yet researched

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.

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

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    169 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    194 km
  3. 03
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    431 km
  4. 04
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    468 km
  5. 05
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    490 km

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Around it

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