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Snailbeach

Snailbeach is a village in Shropshire, England, located at grid reference SJ375025, three 3 miles (4.8 km) south of the village of Pontesbury and around 12 miles (19 km) from the county town of Shrewsbury.

The place

Snailbeach is a village in Shropshire, England, located at grid reference SJ375025, three 3 miles (4.8 km) south of the village of Pontesbury and around 12 miles (19 km) from the county town of Shrewsbury. The population details taken at the 2011 census can be found under Worthen. The village was formerly home to a large lead mine.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Snailbeach

One place 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
    Stiperstones

    Hill in Shropshire, United Kingdom

    3.9 km · 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 Snailbeach

Airports
Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 80 km · Birmingham (BHX), 82 km · Manchester (MAN), 92 km
Stations
Minsterley railway station, 2.7 km
  • Liverpool → Snailbeach
    89 km · quickest by road, 2h 26m · £10–14
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Snailbeach
    71 km · quickest by road, 1h 51m · £8–11
  • Manchester, Greater Manchester → Snailbeach
    107 km · quickest by road, 2h 33m · £14–18
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Snailbeach

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 Snailbeach. 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

    200 km
  2. 02
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    242 km
  3. 03
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    359 km
  4. 04
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    396 km
  5. 05
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    418 km

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

Around it

Next door to Snailbeach

  • Minsterleyvillage and civil parish in Shropshire, United Kingdom2.5 km
  • Habberleyvillage in Shropshire, England, UK2.6 km
  • Asterleyvillage in Shropshire, United Kingdom3.8 km
  • Malehurstvillage in Swydd Amwythig, United Kingdom4 km