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Penley

Penley is a village in the County Borough of Wrexham, in Wales close to the border with Shropshire, England, and had a population of 606 as of the 2011 census.

Penley
Penley · Geoff Charles
The place

Penley is a village in the County Borough of Wrexham, in Wales close to the border with Shropshire, England, and had a population of 606 as of the 2011 census.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Penley

3 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
    Hanmer Mere

    Hanmer Mere is a natural lake and Site of Special Scientific Interest in Wrexham County Borough, Wales. The village of Hanmer is at the northern end of the lake.

    3.7 km · Site of Special Scientific Interest in Wales · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Halghton Hall

    Halghton Hall is a house in the hamlet of Halghton in Wrexham County Borough, North Wales. Designed in around 1662 in a Jacobean style, it is a Grade I listed building.

    2.6 km · Grade I listed building in the United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Cloy Brook Pastures

    Cloy Brook Pastures is a Site of Special Scientific Interest in the preserved county of Clwyd, north Wales. It is an area of wet pasture managed by grazing, with a variety of plants such as dyer’s greenweed, pepper saxifrage and spiny restharrow.

    3.3 km · Site of Special Scientific Interest in Wales · 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.

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Getting to Penley

Airports
Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 42 km · Manchester (MAN), 59 km · Birmingham (BHX), 94 km
  • Liverpool → Penley
    51 km · quickest by road, 1h 36m · £7–9
  • Manchester, Greater Manchester → Penley
    72 km · quickest by road, 2h 5m · £8–11
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Penley
    84 km · quickest by road, 2h · £9–12
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Penley

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 Penley. 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
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    233 km
  2. 02
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    274 km
  3. 03
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    327 km
  4. 04
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    363 km
  5. 05
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    386 km

If you know how people move in Penley – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Penley

Penley is 50 km from Birkenhead, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.