Telford

Worth seeing in and around Telford

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.

1. 01
   Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust

   Museum service based in Shropshire, United Kingdom

   5.1 km · Wikipedia
2. 02
   Blists Hill Victorian Town

   Open-air museum in Telford, United Kingdom

   5.3 km · Wikipedia
3. 03
   SEAH Stadium

   Football stadium in Telford

   4.2 km · Wikipedia
4. 04
   Enginuity

   Interactive museum in Shropshire, England

   5.9 km · Wikipedia
5. 05
   Coalbrookdale Museum of Iron

   Museum in Shropshire, England, United Kingdom

   5.1 km · Wikipedia
6. 06
   Wombridge Canal

   Canal in the UK

   3.5 km · Wikipedia
7. 07
   Haughton Hall

   18th-century country house, Shifnal, Shropshire, England, UK

   4.4 km · Wikipedia
8. 08
   Museum of the Gorge

   Museum in Ironbridge, Shropshire, United Kingdom

   6 km · Wikipedia
9. 09
   St Michael's Church, Madeley

   Church in Shropshire, England, UK

   4.8 km · Wikipedia
10. 10
    Lee Dingle Bridge

    Bridge in Madeley, Telford and Wrekin, Shropshire, England, UK

    5.3 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.

Getting to Telford

Airports

Birmingham (BHX), 53 km · Manchester (MAN), 76 km · East Midlands (EMA), 77 km

Stations

Wellington railway station, 5.3 km · Shifnal railway station, 5.3 km · Oakengates railway station, 1.8 km · Telford Central railway station, 700 m · Spring Village railway station, 2.7 km

• Birmingham, West Midlands → Telford

  43 km · quickest by road, 1h · £5–7
  GuideToday
• Manchester, Greater Manchester → Telford

  91 km · quickest by road, 2h 29m · £11–14
  GuideToday
• Nottingham, Leicestershire → Telford

  93 km · quickest by road, 2h 9m · £11–14
  GuideToday
• From anywhere

  The planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
  Plan a trip

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 Telford

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

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