Hopwas
Hopwas is a village in Staffordshire, England.

Hopwas is a village in Staffordshire, England. It lies along the North West borders of Tamworth Borough and 5 miles (8 km) east of Lichfield. It is situated where the A51 road crosses both the River Tame and the Coventry Canal. Although adjacent to the Borough of Tamworth, the village is part of the parish of Wigginton and Hopwas within Lichfield District.
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Worth seeing in and around Hopwas
10 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.
- 01Tamworth Castle
Tamworth Castle, a Grade I listed building, is a Norman castle overlooking the mouth of the River Anker into the Tame in the town of Tamworth in Staffordshire, England. Before boundary changes in 1889, however, the castle was within the edge of Warwickshire while most of the town belonged to Staffordshire.
3.1 km · Grade I listed Norman motte and bailey castle and museum in Tamworth, Staffordshire, United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 02Drayton Manor Theme Park
Drayton Manor Resort is a family theme park, zoo and accommodation in the grounds of the former Drayton Manor, in Drayton Bassett, Staffordshire, England, UK. It covers 180 acres, of which about 113 acres are in use. It is the fourth-largest amusement park in the UK by land area at 280 acres.
3.9 km · Theme park and zoo · Wikipedia - 03The Lamb Ground
The Lamb Ground is a football stadium in the district of Kettlebrook, in Tamworth, Staffordshire, England and is the home of Tamworth Football Club. It has a capacity of 4,000, and is approximately half a mile south of Tamworth railway station.
3.7 km · football stadium in Tamworth, England · Wikipedia - 04Church of St Editha
The Church of St Editha is a Church of England parish church and Grade I listed building in Tamworth, Staffordshire, England.
3.1 km · church in Tamworth, England · Wikipedia - 05St Chad's Church, Hopwas
St Chad's Church is in the village of Hopwas, Staffordshire, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Tamworth, the archdeaconry of Lichfield and the diocese of Lichfield.
200 m · grade II listed church in Wigginton and Hopwas, Lichfield, Staffordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 06Whittington Old Hall
Whittington Old Hall is a 16th-century mansion house at Whittington, Staffordshire, England, which has been subdivided into separate residential apartments. It is a Grade II* listed building.
3.6 km · country house in Staffordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 07Moat House
The Moat House is a Grade II* building in Tamworth, Staffordshire, England, in what were once the grounds of Tamworth Castle. The summer house, in the rear beer garden, is a Grade II listed building.
2.7 km · Grade II* listed building in Tamworth, Staffordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 08Bolehall Viaduct
Bolehall Viaduct, also known as Bolebridge Viaduct or the Anker Viaduct, and known locally as the 19 Arches, is a railway bridge in Bolehall, Tamworth, Staffordshire, England. It was designed by George Stephenson and opened in 1839 for the Birmingham and Derby Junction Railway.
3.7 km · viaduct in Tamworth, Staffordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 09Accelerator
Accelerator is a steel shuttle roller coaster at Drayton Manor Resort.
3.9 km · roller coaster at Drayton Manor Theme Park, Drayton Bassett, Staffordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 10Fazeley Junction
Fazeley Junction is the name of the canal junction where the authorised Birmingham and Fazeley Canal terminates and meets the Coventry Canal at Fazeley, near Tamworth, Staffordshire, England.
3.9 km · canal junction in the uk · Wikipedia
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Getting to Hopwas
- Airports
- Birmingham (BHX), 21 km · East Midlands (EMA), 35 km · Manchester (MAN), 87 km
- Stations
- Tamworth railway station, 3.6 km
- Manchester, Greater Manchester → Hopwas99 km · quickest by road, 2h 32m · £13–17
- Liverpool → Hopwas119 km · quickest by road, 2h 20m · £14–19
- London → Hopwas168 km · quickest by road, 3h 10m · £18–23
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No local-transport research exists yet for Hopwas
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 Hopwas. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
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Next door to Hopwas
Hopwas is 21 km from Birmingham, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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