Oldbury-on-Severn
Oldbury-on-Severn is a small village near the mouth of the River Severn in the South Gloucestershire district of the county of Gloucestershire in the west of England.
Oldbury-on-Severn is a small village near the mouth of the River Severn in the South Gloucestershire district of the county of Gloucestershire in the west of England. The parish, which includes the village of Cowhill had a population at the 2011 census of 780.
It is home to the nearby Oldbury nuclear power station, a Magnox power station which opened in 1967 and ceased operation on 29 February 2012.
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Worth seeing in and around Oldbury-on-Severn
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.
- 01Thornbury
Thornbury is a market town and civil parish in the South Gloucestershire unitary authority area of England, about 12 miles north of Bristol. It had a population of 12,063 at the 2011 census, rising to 14,496 in the 2021 census.
3.9 km · market town in South Gloucestershire, Gloucestershire, England · Wikipedia - 02Thornbury Castle
Thornbury Castle is a Tudor castle in the town of Thornbury, in Gloucestershire, England, erected next to the parish church of St Mary. Construction was begun in 1511 as a further residence for Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham, of Stafford Castle in Staffordshire.
3.3 km · Grade I listed castle in South Gloucestershire, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
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Getting to Oldbury-on-Severn
- Airports
- Bristol (BRS), 30 km · Cardiff (CWL), 60 km · Birmingham (BHX), 107 km
- Cardiff → Oldbury-on-Severn46 km · quickest by road, 1h 19m · £6–7
- Birmingham, West Midlands → Oldbury-on-Severn105 km · quickest by road, 2h 21m · £11–15
- London → Oldbury-on-Severn169 km · quickest by road, 3h 14m · £18–24
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Oldbury-on-Severn
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 Oldbury-on-Severn. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Go nextThe bridge over the river, which opened in 1906 and replaced a ferry (which promptly went bankrupt owing to an inevitable loss of custom), is particularly fine.
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If you know how people move in Oldbury-on-Severn – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Oldbury-on-Severn
Oldbury-on-Severn is 20 km from Bristol, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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