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Wem Rural

Wem Rural is a large civil parish in Shropshire, England that encircles, but does not include, the market town of Wem.

Wem Rural
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The place

Wem Rural is a large civil parish in Shropshire, England that encircles, but does not include, the market town of Wem. Its settlements include the villages of Aston and Barkers Green, Coton, Edstaston, Quina Brook and Pepperstreet, Horton, Newtown, Wolverley and Northwood and Tilley. Prees railway station is also in the parish. The population of the parish at the 2021 census was 1,747.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Wem Rural

3 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
    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.

    1.9 km · church in Edstaston, Shropshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    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.

    3.9 km · landscape park in Shropshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    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.

    1.3 km · country house hotel in Wem Rural, Shropshire, England, UK · Wikipedia

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Go there

Getting to Wem Rural

Airports
Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 52 km · Manchester (MAN), 59 km · Birmingham (BHX), 79 km
Stations
Wem railway station, 2.8 km · Prees railway station, 2.6 km
  • Liverpool → Wem Rural
    62 km · quickest by road, 1h 19m · £7–9
  • Manchester, Greater Manchester → Wem Rural
    75 km · quickest by road, 1h 36m · £9–11
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Wem Rural
    71 km · quickest by road, 1h 20m · £8–11
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Wem Rural

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 Rural. 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

    232 km
  2. 02
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    261 km
  3. 03
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 36 sources

    340 km
  4. 04
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    376 km
  5. 05
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    399 km

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

Around it

Next door to Wem Rural

  • Wemtown in Shropshire, England3.1 km
  • Preesvillage and civil parish in Shropshire, England, UK3 km
  • Whixallvillage and civil parish in Shropshire, England, UK3.8 km
  • Weston-under-Redcastlevillage and civil parish in Shropshire, England3.9 km
  • Astonvillage in Wem Rural civil parish, Shropshire, England2.6 km
  • Cotonvillage in Wem Rural, Shropshire, United Kingdom3.6 km