Smethwick
Smethwick is an industrial town in the Sandwell district, in the county of the West Midlands, England.
Smethwick is an industrial town in the Sandwell district, in the county of the West Midlands, England. It lies 4 miles (6 km) west of Birmingham city centre. Historically it was in Staffordshire and then Worcestershire before being placed into West Midlands county.
Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Worth seeing in and around Smethwick
10 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.
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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.
Getting to Smethwick
- Airports
- Birmingham (BHX), 16 km · East Midlands (EMA), 57 km · Manchester (MAN), 97 km
- Stations
- Birmingham New Street railway station, 5 km · Birmingham Moor Street railway station, 5.5 km · Birmingham Snow Hill station, 4.8 km · Smethwick Rolfe Street railway station, 400 m · Smethwick Galton Bridge railway station, 1.3 km
- Nottingham, Leicestershire → Smethwick75 km · quickest by road, 1h 41m · £8–10
- Manchester, Greater Manchester → Smethwick111 km · quickest by road, 2h 27m · £12–16
- Liverpool → Smethwick122 km · quickest by road, 2h 17m · £14–18
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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 Smethwick
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 Smethwick. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inHolyhead's ferry port ensures that the north of Wales is well connected with the whole West Midlands.
From Wikivoyage: West Midlands (county), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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Next door to Smethwick
Smethwick is 5 km from Birmingham, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Birminghamcity in the West Midlands, England4.7 km
- Sandwellmetropolitan borough in the West Midlands of England3.6 km
- Oldburytown in the West Midlands in England3.5 km
- Edgbastonarea in the city of Birmingham, England5.1 km
- Blackheathtown in Sandwell, West Midlands, United Kingdom5 km
- Bull Ringcommercial area of Birmingham, England5.3 km