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Welshampton

Welshampton is a small village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Welshampton and Lyneal, in the Shropshire district, in the ceremonial county of Shropshire, England.

Welshampton
Welshampton · Geoff Charles
The place

Welshampton is a small village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Welshampton and Lyneal, in the Shropshire district, in the ceremonial county of Shropshire, England. It is located on the A495 road, near to the town of Ellesmere. It is adjacent to the villages of Lyneal and Colemere which comprise part of the so-called 'North Shropshire Lake District', all of which is within walking distance of Welshampton. At the 2001 Census, the Welshampton and Lyneal civil parish had a population of 839, increasing to 852 at the 2011 Census. with a total population of 3,896 (2001) for the Ellesmere and Welshampton ward.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Welshampton

5 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
    Ellesmere Castle

    Ellesmere Castle was in the town of Ellesmere, Shropshire..

    3.1 km · motte-and-bailey castle in Ellesmere Urban, Shropshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    St Michael and All Angels' Church, Welshampton

    The Church of St Michael and All Angels is a Grade II listed Anglican church in the village of Welshampton in Shropshire. It was built in the 1860s for Frances Mainwaring and Salusbury Kynaston Mainwaring, in memory of Charles Kynaston Mainwaring of Oteley.

    100 m · church in Shropshire, Egland · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    St Mary's Church, Ellesmere

    St Mary's Church stands on a hill in the town of Ellesmere, Shropshire, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Ellesmere, the archdeaconry of Salop, and the diocese of Lichfield.

    3.2 km · church in Ellesmere, Shropshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Town Hall

    The Old Town Hall is a municipal building in the High Street in Ellesmere, Shropshire, England. The structure, which was the meeting place of Ellesmere Urban District Council, is a Grade II listed building.

    3.5 km · Old Town Hall in Ellesmere, Shropshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Colemere Countryside Site

    Colemere Countryside Site is a countryside heritage site. Due to its important conservation status it has two key designations being a Site of Special Scientific Interest and an internationally important Ramsar wetland site.

    2.1 km · countryside heritage site in Shropshire, England · 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.

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Getting to Welshampton

Airports
Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 47 km · Manchester (MAN), 62 km · Birmingham (BHX), 89 km
Stations
Bettisfield railway station, 2.7 km
  • Liverpool → Welshampton
    56 km · quickest by road, 1h 40m · £7–9
  • Manchester, Greater Manchester → Welshampton
    75 km · quickest by road, 2h 2m · £8–11
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Welshampton
    79 km · quickest by road, 1h 55m · £9–12
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Welshampton

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 Welshampton. 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

    230 km
  2. 02
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    269 km
  3. 03
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    332 km
  4. 04
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    368 km
  5. 05
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    391 km

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

Around it

Next door to Welshampton

Welshampton is 55 km from Birkenhead, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.