Tipton

Worth seeing in and around Tipton

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
   Dudley Castle

   Dudley Castle is a ruined fortification in the town of Dudley, West Midlands, England. Originally, a wooden motte and bailey castle built soon after the Norman Conquest, it was rebuilt as a stone fortification during the twelfth century but subsequently demolished on the orders of Henry II of England.

   1.3 km · Grade I listed castle in Dudley, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
2. 02
   Tividale Tirupathy Balaji Temple

   The Shri Venkateswara Temple is a Hindu temple located on a 30-acre site in Tividale, a suburb of Birmingham in the United Kingdom. It is dedicated in the Vaishnava tradition to Venkateswara, a form of the Hindu god Vishnu.

   3.4 km · Hindu temple in Tividale, West Midlands, England · Wikipedia
3. 03
   Dudley Zoo

   Dudley Zoo & Castle is a 40-acre zoo within a 200-acre densely-wooded site located within the grounds of Dudley Castle in the town of Dudley, in the Black Country region of the West Midlands, England. The zoo opened to the public on 18 May 1937.

   1.3 km · zoo in West Midlands, England · Wikipedia
4. 04
   BCN Main Line

   The BCN Main Line, or Birmingham Canal Navigations Main Line is the evolving route of the Birmingham Canal between Birmingham and Wolverhampton in England. The name Main Line was used to distinguish the main Birmingham to Wolverhampton route from the many other canals and branches built or acquired by the Birmingham Canal Navigations company.

   1.1 km · Canal in and around Birmingham , England · Wikipedia
5. 05
   Pensnett Canal

   The Pensnett Canal, also called Lord Ward's Canal, was a private 1.25 miles long canal near Brierley Hill, West Midlands, England, which opened in 1840 and served the industrial enterprises of Lord Dudley's Estate. The engineer was Mathew Frost.

   4.6 km · canal in the UK · Wikipedia
6. 06
   Black Country Living Museum

   The Black Country Living Museum is an open-air museum of rebuilt historic buildings in Dudley, West Midlands, England. It is located in the centre of the Black Country, 10 miles west of Birmingham.

   500 m · open-air museum of manufacturing history in Dudley, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
7. 07
   Church of St. James the Great, Sedgley

   The Church of St. James the Great is an Anglican church in the Lower Gornal area of Sedgley in the West Midlands, England.

   3.4 km · grade II listed church in Gornal, Dudley, West Midlands, England, UK · Wikipedia
8. 08
   Dudley Canal

   The Dudley Canal is a canal passing through Dudley in the West Midlands of England. The canal is part of the English and Welsh network of connected navigable inland waterways and forms part of the popular Stourport Ring narrowboat cruising route.

   3.6 km · canal in the West Midlands, England · Wikipedia
9. 09
   Bumble Hole Branch Canal

   The present day Bumble Hole Branch Canal and Boshboil Branch surround Bumble Hole, a water-filled clay pit, in Bumble Hole and Warren's Hall Nature Reserve, Rowley Regis, West Midlands, England. They formed a looped part of the original Dudley No.

   3.8 km · canal in the UK · Wikipedia
10. 10
    Church of St. Edmund, Dudley

    The Church of Saint Edmund is a Grade II* listed Anglo-Catholic parish church on Castle Street in the town of Dudley in the West Midlands County of England. It is known locally as "Bottom Church", as opposed to St Thomas's parish church in High Street which is known as "Top Church".

    1.6 km · church in Dudley, West Midlands, England, UK · Wikipedia

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What Wikivoyage says to see

1. 01
   Lightwoods Park

   Park in Bearwood that can be reached from the woods by crossing Lightwoods Hill.

2. 02
   Coronation Gardens

   You will find a statue to William Perry, a 19th-century bare-fist boxing champion, often known as the "Tipton Slasher".

3. 03
   RSPB Sandwell Valley

   20 Tanhouse Ave, Great Barr, B43 5AG (Train to Hamstead; No 16 bus; or signposted from local roads), sandwellvalley@rspb.org.uk.

4. 04
   Dartmouth Park

   A large green area with parks, a forest, a nature reserve, and Sandwell Park Farm.

From Wikivoyage: Tipton, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Things to do

1. 01
   Sandwell Aquatics Centre

   Olympic swimming and diving pool built for the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, and now a public facility.

2. 02
   Tipton Sports Academy

   It provides facilities for many sports including track sports, football, tennis, squash and others, all open to the public at cheap rates.

From Wikivoyage: Tipton, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Where to eat

Teknaf Cuisine, 622 Bearwood Road, Bearwood (Hagley Road end of the High Street),. One of the better balti houses in Bearwood, with a more modern take on Indian and Bangladeshi cuisine. £10-20. Franzl's (Austrian Cuisine), Milcote Road, Bearwood. An Austrian restaurant, nestled on a residential street in Bearwood. Expensive but well regarded. £20-30. The Kings Head (Gastro Pub), Hagley Road, Bearwood,.

1. 01
   Mad O'Roukes Pie Factory

   A theme pub which serves a range of hearty pies and ales.

From Wikivoyage: Tipton, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Getting to Tipton

Airports

Birmingham (BHX), 24 km · East Midlands (EMA), 61 km · Manchester (MAN), 93 km

Stations

Tipton railway station, 800 m · Sandwell and Dudley railway station, 4.7 km · Coseley railway station, 2.2 km · Dudley Port railway station, 1.8 km · Langley Green railway station, 5.9 km

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  78 km · quickest by road, 1h 50m · £9–12
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  106 km · quickest by road, 2h 30m · £12–16
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  115 km · quickest by road, 2h 41m · £13–18
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