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Swinfen and Packington

Swinfen and Packington is a civil parish in Lichfield District, Staffordshire, England.

The place

Swinfen and Packington is a civil parish in Lichfield District, Staffordshire, England. The parish was formed in 1934 by division from Weeford. The parish includes the hamlet of Swinfen, and contains several listed buildings, including Packington Hall.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Swinfen and Packington

7 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
    Swinfen Hall

    Swinfen Hall is an 18th-century country mansion house, now converted into a hotel, situated at Swinfen, in the Lichfield district of Staffordshire in England. It is a Grade II* listed building.

    1.3 km · mansion in Swinfen and Packington, Staffordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Freeford Hall

    Freeford Manor is a privately owned 18th-century country house at Freeford, near Lichfield, Staffordshire. It is the home of the Dyott family and is a Grade II listed building.

    2.1 km · country house in Swinfen and Packington, Staffordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    St Chad's Church, Hopwas

    St Chad's Church is in the village of Hopwas, Staffordshire, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Tamworth, the archdeaconry of Lichfield and the diocese of Lichfield.

    2.9 km · grade II listed church in Wigginton and Hopwas, Lichfield, Staffordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Whittington Old Hall

    Whittington Old Hall is a 16th-century mansion house at Whittington, Staffordshire, England, which has been subdivided into separate residential apartments. It is a Grade II* listed building.

    2.8 km · country house in Staffordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Huddlesford Junction

    Huddlesford Junction is a canal junction at the original north-eastern limit of the Wyrley and Essington Canal where it met the Coventry Canal, near Lichfield, in Staffordshire, England.

    3.7 km · canal junction in Staffordshire, West Midlands, England, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Packington Hall

    Packington Hall in Staffordshire was an English country house designed by architect James Wyatt in the 18th century. Originally built for the Babington family, it became the home of the Levett family of Wychnor Hall, in that same county, until the first half of the twentieth century.

    1.6 km · country house in Staffordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Staffordshire Regiment Museum

    The Staffordshire Regiment Museum is a military museum in Staffordshire, England, preserving the history of the Staffordshire Regiment, its antecedent regiments and its successor regiment, the Mercian Regiment, from 1705 to the present. The Staffordshire Regiment was an Infantry regiment of the British Army, formed in 1959 by the amalgamation of the South Staffordshire Regiment and the North Staffordshire Regiment.

    1.1 km · military museum in Lichfield, Staffordshire, United Kingdom · Wikipedia

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Getting to Swinfen and Packington

Airports
Birmingham (BHX), 22 km · East Midlands (EMA), 37 km · Manchester (MAN), 85 km
  • Manchester, Greater Manchester → Swinfen and Packington
    97 km · quickest by road, 2h 42m · £12–16
  • Liverpool → Swinfen and Packington
    116 km · quickest by road, 2h 29m · £14–18
  • London → Swinfen and Packington
    171 km · quickest by road, 3h 25m · £18–24
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No local-transport research exists yet for Swinfen and Packington

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 Swinfen and Packington. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

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  2. 02
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  4. 04
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  5. 05
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Around it

Next door to Swinfen and Packington

Swinfen and Packington is 20 km from Birmingham, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Whittingtonvillage and civil parish in Lichfield District, Staffordshire, United Kingdom2.7 km
  • Weefordvillage in Staffordshire, England, UK2.3 km
  • Hintsvillage in Staffordshire, England, UK3.2 km
  • Hopwasvillage in Staffordshire, England, UK3.1 km
  • Huddlesfordvillage in Staffordshire, England, UK3.9 km
  • Swinfenvillage in Staffordshire, England, UK1.8 km