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Stretton Sugwas

Stretton Sugwas is a village and civil parish in Herefordshire, England, about 4 miles (6.4 km) northwest of Hereford.

Stretton Sugwas
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The place

Stretton Sugwas is a village and civil parish in Herefordshire, England, about 4 miles (6.4 km) northwest of Hereford. The parish also includes the hamlet of Swainshill. The population of this Civil Parish at the 2011 census was 505. In 1087 the village was held by Roger de Lacy and consisted of two and a half hides paying geld, in demesne there was 2 ploughs, 1 villan, 9 bordars, 4 oxmen, and 2 radknights, as well as a mill rendering 32d. The village had increased in value from 40 to 50s from the time of the conquest to that of Domesday. The village lies within the ancient Hundred of Grimsworth

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What is there

Worth seeing in and around Stretton Sugwas

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
    Magnae Dobunnorum

    Magnae, sometimes Magnae Dobunnorum to distinguish it from the Magnae of the Carvetii on Hadrian's Wall in northern Britain, was a Romano-British town and an important market centre for the British Dobunni tribe, located near modern-day Kenchester in Herefordshire, England. The town was shaped as an irregular hexagon, with a single main street along the line of the main Roman Road running east–west through the area, and an irregular pattern of side streets with tightly packed buildings leading off it.

    2.4 km · Romano-British town and archaeological site · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Brinsop Court

    Brinsop Court, Brinsop, Herefordshire, England is a manor house dating from the 14th century. The house was much extended in the 16th and 17th centuries, and reconstructed in the early 20th century by Henry Avray Tipping.

    3.8 km · Grade I listed building in Brinsop and Wormsley, Herefordshire, England,UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Racecourse Ground, Hereford

    The Racecourse Ground is a cricket ground in Hereford. The ground is located inside Hereford Racecourse and is the only remaining former first-class cricket venue in England which lies inside a racecourse.

    3.9 km · cricket ground in Hereford, England · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Church of St Mary Magdalene, Stretton Sugwas

    The Church of St Mary Magdalene is an Anglican church in the village of Stretton Sugwas, in Herefordshire, England. The church is in the Burghill Benefice.

    600 m · church in Herefordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia

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Getting to Stretton Sugwas

Airports
Bristol (BRS), 77 km · Birmingham (BHX), 82 km · Cardiff (CWL), 85 km
  • Bristol → Stretton Sugwas
    70 km · quickest by road, 2h 6m · £8–11
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Stretton Sugwas
    75 km · quickest by road, 2h 9m · £9–12
  • Cardiff → Stretton Sugwas
    72 km · quickest by road, 2h 5m · £9–12
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Stretton Sugwas

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 Stretton Sugwas. 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

    164 km
  2. 02
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    186 km
  3. 03
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    419 km
  4. 04
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    455 km
  5. 05
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    476 km

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