Wednesbury

Worth seeing in and around Wednesbury

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
   Bescot Stadium

   Bescot Stadium, currently known as the Pallet-Track Bescot Stadium for sponsorship reasons, is a football stadium in the area of Bescot, Walsall, West Midlands, England. With a capacity of 11,300, it is the current home ground of Walsall and Aston Villa Women.

   2.4 km · football stadium · Wikipedia
2. 02
   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.

   5.8 km · Grade I listed castle in Dudley, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
3. 03
   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.

   4.4 km · Hindu temple in Tividale, West Midlands, England · Wikipedia
4. 04
   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.

   5.8 km · zoo in West Midlands, England · Wikipedia
5. 05
   The New Art Gallery Walsall

   The New Art Gallery Walsall is a modern and contemporary art gallery in the town of Walsall, in the West Midlands, England. It was built with £21 million of public funding, including £15.75 million from the UK National Lottery and additional money from the European Regional Development Fund and City Challenge.

   4.4 km · Modern and contemporary art gallery in Walsall, England, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
6. 06
   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.

   4.5 km · Canal in and around Birmingham , England · Wikipedia
7. 07
   Gower Branch Canal

   The Gower Branch Canal is a half-mile canal at Tividale in England, linking Albion Junction on the Birmingham Level of the Birmingham Canal Navigations, and Brades Hall Junction on the BCN's older Wolverhampton level, via three locks, the Brades Locks, at the Southern, Brades Hall end. It has a towpath on its eastern side and is crossed by only one road, the A457, just north of the middle lock.

   4.3 km · canal in the UK · Wikipedia
8. 08
   Wednesbury Old Canal

   Wednesbury Old Canal is part of the Birmingham Canal Navigations in the English West Midlands. It opened in 1769, and although parts of it were abandoned in 1955 and 1960, the section between Pudding Green Junction and Ryder's Green Junction is navigable, as it provides a link to the Walsall Canal.

   3.3 km · canal in the West Midlands, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
9. 09
   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.

   5.2 km · open-air museum of manufacturing history in Dudley, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
10. 10
    Wednesbury Museum and Art Gallery

    Wednesbury Museum and Art Gallery is a purpose-built Victorian art gallery in Wednesbury in the West Midlands of England. It is notable for its Ruskin Pottery collection and for hosting the first public display of the Stuckism art movement.

    300 m · art museum in Sandwell, West Midlands, United Kingdom · Wikipedia

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Getting to Wednesbury

Airports

Birmingham (BHX), 21 km · East Midlands (EMA), 56 km · Manchester (MAN), 90 km

Stations

Tipton railway station, 4 km · Sandwell and Dudley railway station, 4.8 km · Walsall railway station, 4.2 km · Coseley railway station, 4.6 km · Dudley Port railway station, 3.6 km

• Nottingham, Leicestershire → Wednesbury

  74 km · quickest by road, 1h 42m · £8–11
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• Manchester, Greater Manchester → Wednesbury

  104 km · quickest by road, 2h 21m · £11–15
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• Liverpool → Wednesbury

  115 km · quickest by road, 2h 33m · £13–17
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