Little Wenlock
Little Wenlock is a village and civil parish in the Telford and Wrekin borough in Shropshire, England.
Little Wenlock is a village and civil parish in the Telford and Wrekin borough in Shropshire, England. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 605. It was mentioned in the Domesday Book, when it belonged to Wenlock Priory. Ancient habitation is attested by the discovery of two caches of Bronze Age weapons. The village is situated two miles west of Dawley.
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Worth seeing in and around Little Wenlock
9 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 Wrekin
The Wrekin is a hill in east Shropshire, England. It is located some five miles west of Telford, on the border between the unitary authorities of Shropshire and Telford and Wrekin.
2.2 km · large hill in the United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 02Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust
The Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust was an industrial heritage organisation which ran ten museums and managed multiple historic sites within the Ironbridge Gorge World Heritage Site in Shropshire, England, widely considered as the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution. Its assets are now managed by the National Trust.
3 km · Museum service based in Shropshire, United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 03Buildwas Abbey
Buildwas Abbey was a Cistercian monastery located on the banks of the River Severn, at Buildwas in Shropshire, England - today about 2 miles west of Ironbridge. Founded by the local bishop in 1135, it was sparsely endowed at the outset but enjoyed several periods of growth and increasing wealth: notably under Abbot Ranulf in the second half of the 12th century and again from the mid-13th century, when large numbers of acquisitions were made from the local landed gentry.
2.6 km · abbey · Wikipedia - 04Albert Edward Bridge
The Albert Edward Bridge is a railway bridge spanning the River Severn at Coalbrookdale in Shropshire, England.
3.3 km · bridge in Shropshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 05Coalbrookdale Museum of Iron
The Coalbrookdale Museum of Iron is managed by the National Trust and is one of ten museums acquired from the Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust in 2026. The museum is based in the town of Coalbrookdale in the Ironbridge Gorge, in Shropshire, England, within a World Heritage Site, the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution.
3 km · Museum in Shropshire, England, United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 06Museum of the Gorge
The Museum of the Gorge, originally the Severn Warehouse, is managed by the National Trust and is one of the ten museums to be acquired from the Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust in 2026. It portrays the history of the Ironbridge Gorge and the surrounding area of Coalbrookdale, Shropshire, England.
3.8 km · museum in Ironbridge, Shropshire, United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 07Church of Holy Trinity, Coalbrookdale
Holy Trinity Church is an Anglican church in Coalbrookdale, Shropshire, England. It is part of the United Benefice of Coalbrookdale, Ironbridge and Little Wenlock, in the Diocese of Hereford.
3.4 km · church in Coalbrookdale, Shropshire UK · Wikipedia - 08Darby Houses
The Darby Houses museum is managed by the National Trust and is one of ten museums acquired from the Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust in 2026. It is based in Coalbrookdale in Ironbridge Gorge in Shropshire, England within a World Heritage Site, the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution.
2.7 km · Historic houses, now a museum, in Coalbrookdale, Shropshire, England, United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 09Dawley Town Hall
Dawley Town Hall is an events venue in New Street in Dawley, Shropshire, England.
3.9 km · municipal building in England · Wikipedia
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Getting to Little Wenlock
- Airports
- Birmingham (BHX), 57 km · Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 78 km · Manchester (MAN), 79 km
- Stations
- Spring Village railway station, 2.8 km
- Birmingham, West Midlands → Little Wenlock47 km · quickest by road, 1h 9m · £5–7
- Liverpool → Little Wenlock89 km · quickest by road, 2h 23m · £10–13
- Manchester, Greater Manchester → Little Wenlock93 km · quickest by road, 2h 36m · £11–15
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No local-transport research exists yet for Little Wenlock
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 Little Wenlock. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
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Next door to Little Wenlock
Little Wenlock is 47 km from Birmingham, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Coalbrookdalevillage in Telford and Wrekin, Shropshire, England3 km
- Buildwasvillage and civil parish in Shropshire, England2.3 km
- Leighton and Eaton Constantinecivil parish in Shropshire, UK3.8 km
- Horsehayvillage in Shropshire, England, UK2.3 km
- Dawley Hamletscivil parish in Shropshire, United Kingdom3.3 km
- Lawley and Overdalecivil parish in Telford and Wrekin, Shropshire, England3.4 km