Shillington
Shillington is a borough in Berks County, Pennsylvania, United States.
Shillington is a borough in Berks County, Pennsylvania, United States. With a population of 5,475 at the time of the 2020 census the borough is nestled amongst other suburbs outside Reading. It is perhaps best known for being the location of the homestead to Pennsylvania's first governor, Thomas Mifflin, and as the childhood home of American author John Updike. Many of Updike's stories take place in the fictional town of Olinger, a lightly-disguised version of Shillington, and in its environs.
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Worth seeing in and around Shillington
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.
- 01Reading Public Museum
The Reading Public Museum is a museum in Reading, Pennsylvania, located in the 18th Ward, along the Wyomissing Creek. By the size and scope of its collection, numbering more than 280,000 objects and specimens, it is the largest private museum and largest collection of artwork, numbering over 50,000 works, located between Philadelphia and Pittsburgh.
2.9 km · museum in West Reading, Pennsylvania · Wikipedia - 02Nolde Forest Environmental Education Center
Nolde Forest Environmental Educational Center is a 725-acre Pennsylvania state park in Cumru Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania, in the United States. Programs are offered for youth and adult groups, school groups, and individuals.
3.4 km · State park in Pennsylvania, USA · Wikipedia - 03Alvernia University
Alvernia University is a private Franciscan university in Reading, Pennsylvania. Founded as Alvernia College in 1958 by the Bernardine Sisters of St.
2.8 km · Catholic university in Reading, Pennsylvania, U.S. · Wikipedia
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Getting to Shillington
- Airports
- Philadelphia (PHL), 78 km · Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall (BWI), 139 km · Newark Liberty (EWR), 158 km
- Philadelphia → Shillington79 km · quickest by road, 1h 58m · $8–11
- New York → Shillington172 km · quickest by road, 3h 32m · $16–22
- Baltimore → Shillington126 km · quickest by road, 2h 50m · $13–18
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No local-transport research exists yet for Shillington
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 Shillington. 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 Shillington – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Shillington
- Wyomissing Hillsborough of Pennsylvania3.8 km