Wem

Worth seeing in and around Wem

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
   Acton Reynald Hall

   Acton Reynald Hall is a 19th-century country house at Acton Reynald, Moreton Corbet, Shropshire, England. It is a Grade II* listed building.

   5.9 km · country house in Moreton Corbet and Lee Brockhurst, Shropshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
2. 02
   St Mary's Church, Edstaston

   St Mary's Church is in the village of Edstaston, in the civil parish of Wem Rural, Shropshire, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Wem and Whitchurch, the archdeaconry of Salop, and the diocese of Lichfield.

   3.3 km · church in Edstaston, Shropshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
3. 03
   Hawkstone Park

   Hawkstone Park is a historic landscape park in Shropshire, England, with pleasure grounds and gardens. It is historically associated with Soulton Hall the Shropshire headquarters of Sir Rowland Hill publisher of the Geneva Bible, because these two estates were bought by him in 1556 from Sir Thomas Lodge.

   5.6 km · landscape park in Shropshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
4. 04
   Soulton Hall

   Soulton Hall is a Tudor country house located near Wem, in Shropshire, England. The manor is associated with William Shakespeare and his play As You Like It, and the existing hall was constructed between 1556 and 1560 by Sir Rowland Hill, a prominent statesman, polymath, and philanthropist who is remembered as the "First Protestant Lord Mayor of London" serving in 1549-50.

   3.6 km · country house hotel in Wem Rural, Shropshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
5. 05
   Prees Branch Canal

   Prees Branch Canal Nature Reserve is a Shropshire Wildlife Trust nature reserve in the civil parish of Whixall, Shropshire, England. It is a Site of Special Scientific Interest due to the presence of rare pondweeds, and also is the home of watervoles.

   5 km · canal and nature reserve in Shropshire, UK · Wikipedia

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What Wikivoyage says to see

1. 01
   Hawkestone Follies

   Weston Under Redcastle, SY4 5UY (Just 3 miles from Wem).

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

Getting to Wem

Airports

Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 54 km · Manchester (MAN), 63 km · Birmingham (BHX), 80 km

Stations

Yorton railway station, 5 km · Wem railway station, 700 m · Sleap Airfield, 3.6 km · Prees railway station, 5.7 km

• Liverpool → Wem

  64 km · quickest by road, 1h 20m · £7–9
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• Manchester, Greater Manchester → Wem

  76 km · quickest by road, 1h 36m · £9–11
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• Birmingham, West Midlands → Wem

  69 km · quickest by road, 1h 17m · £8–11
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No local-transport research exists yet for Wem

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

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