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Sheriffhales

Sheriffhales is a scattered village in Shropshire, England, 4 miles (6.4 km) north-east of Telford, 3 miles (4.8 km) north of Shifnal and 4 miles (6.4 km) south of Newport.

The place

Sheriffhales is a scattered village in Shropshire, England, 4 miles (6.4 km) north-east of Telford, 3 miles (4.8 km) north of Shifnal and 4 miles (6.4 km) south of Newport. The name derives from Halh (Anglican) and scīr-rēfa which is a combination of Hales and Sheriff. At the time of the Domesday Book, it was held by Roger de Balliol the Sheriff of Shropshire.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Sheriffhales

4 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
    Lilleshall Hall

    Lilleshall Hall is a large former country house and estate at Sheriffhales, Shropshire, England. It is run by Serco Leisure Operating Ltd on behalf of Sport England as one of three National Sports Centres, alongside Bisham Abbey and Plas y Brenin.

    2.4 km · country house in Sheriffhales, Shropshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Woodcote Hall

    Woodcote Hall is a house built in 1875, in use as a nursing home, situated on the edge of Newport, Shropshire, England, on the Staffordshire border. It is grade II listed.

    3.2 km · house in Chetwynd Aston and Woodcote, Telford and Wrekin, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Lilleshall Abbey

    Lilleshall Abbey was an Augustinian abbey in Shropshire, England, today located 6 miles north of Telford. It was founded between 1145 and 1148 and followed the austere customs and observance of the Abbey of Arrouaise in northern France.

    3 km · monastery in Shropshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Church of St Mary

    The Church of St Mary, Sheriffhales, is a Church of England place of worship in the village of Sheriffhales, near the eastern edge of Shropshire, although for most of its history the parish was mainly in Staffordshire, with a small portion in Shropshire. The history of the church goes back at least to the Norman period — possibly into Anglo-Saxon times.

    400 m · church in Sheriffhales, Shropshire, England, UK · Wikipedia

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Getting to Sheriffhales

Airports
Birmingham (BHX), 50 km · East Midlands (EMA), 70 km · Manchester (MAN), 72 km
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Sheriffhales
    40 km · quickest by road, 59 min · £4.5–6
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Sheriffhales
    85 km · quickest by road, 2h 4m · £10–13
  • Manchester, Greater Manchester → Sheriffhales
    86 km · quickest by road, 2h 15m · £10–13
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Sheriffhales

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 Sheriffhales. 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

    236 km
  3. 03
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    367 km
  4. 04
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    403 km
  5. 05
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    427 km

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Around it

Next door to Sheriffhales

Sheriffhales is 40 km from Birmingham, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.