Oaken
Oaken is a small village in Staffordshire, England.
Oaken is a small village in Staffordshire, England. The first mention of the Oaken place-name was in 1086 when it was listed in the Domesday Book as Ache. Its origin appears to be from the Old English, ācum - the oaks.
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Worth seeing in and around Oaken
2 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.
- 01Wrottesley Hall
Wrottesley Hall is a 1923-built Grade II listed house in the civil parish of Perton, and historically part of Tettenhall in Staffordshire, England. The manor of Wrottesley had been held by the Wrottesley family from the twelfth century, having been granted to Simon de Verdun of Cocton, son of William of Cocton by Adam the Abbot of Evesham.
1 km · country house in Staffordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 02St Nicholas' Church, Codsall
St Nicholas’ Church, Codsall is a Grade II* listed parish church in the Church of England in Codsall, Staffordshire, England.
2.4 km · church in Codsall, South Staffordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Oaken
- Airports
- Birmingham (BHX), 37 km · East Midlands (EMA), 65 km · Manchester (MAN), 81 km
- Stations
- Bilbrook railway station, 2.9 km · Codsall railway station, 1.9 km · Albrighton railway station, 3.4 km
- Nottingham, Leicestershire → Oaken80 km · quickest by road, 2h · £9–12
- Manchester, Greater Manchester → Oaken95 km · quickest by road, 2h 23m · £11–15
- Liverpool → Oaken101 km · quickest by road, 2h 31m · £11–14
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No local-transport research exists yet for Oaken
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 Oaken. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
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If you know how people move in Oaken – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Oaken
Oaken is 27 km from Birmingham, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- South Staffordshirelocal government district in Staffordshire, England2.5 km
- Albrightonvillage in Albrighton and Donington, Shropshire in the United Kingdom3.6 km
- Codsallvillage in Staffordshire, England, UK2.5 km
- Pertonvillage in South Staffordshire, England, UK3.6 km
- Bilbrookvillage in Staffordshire, England, UK3.6 km
- Boningalevillage in Shropshire, England, UK3.6 km