--- title: "Wem Rural – what is there, and how you get there | Mixroutes" description: "Wem Rural, United Kingdom: Wem Rural is a large civil parish in Shropshire, England that encircles, but does not include, the market town of Wem. Nearby…" url: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/wem-rural" markdown: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/wem-rural.md" image: "https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c8/A_Shakespeare_play_in_the_Epidaurus_Court_of_Soulton_Hall.jpg/1920px-A_Shakespeare_play_in_the_Epidaurus_Court_of_Soulton_Hall.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail" --- Civil parish in Shropshire, England · United Kingdom # 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](https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c8/A_Shakespeare_play_in_the_Epidaurus_Court_of_Soulton_Hall.jpg/1920px-A_Shakespeare_play_in_the_Epidaurus_Court_of_Soulton_Hall.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) Wem Rural · Deedpacts 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wem_Rural), 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. 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Mary%27s_Church,_Edstaston) 2. 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawkstone_Park) 3. 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soulton_Hall) 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. 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 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/liverpool-to-wem-rural) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Liverpool&to=Wem+Rural) - Manchester, Greater Manchester → Wem Rural 75 km · quickest by road, 1h 34m · £9–12 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/manchester-greater-manchester-to-wem-rural) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Manchester%2C+Greater+Manchester&to=Wem+Rural) - Birmingham, West Midlands → Wem Rural 71 km · quickest by road, 1h 21m · £8–11 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/birmingham-west-midlands-to-wem-rural) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Birmingham%2C+West+Midlands&to=Wem+Rural) - From anywhere The planner compares every way there from wherever you are. [Plan a trip](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=Wem%20Rural) Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds. 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. [Lundy](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/lundy) GB 7 ways of moving, 11 sources 232 km 2. [Isle of Wight](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/isle-of-wight) GB 11 ways of moving, 22 sources 261 km 3. [Isle of Arran](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/isle-of-arran) GB 10 ways of moving, 36 sources 340 km 4. [Tarbert, Loch Fyne and Kintyre](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/tarbert-loch-fyne) GB 9 ways of moving, 15 sources 376 km 5. [Isle of Jura](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/isle-of-jura) GB 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](https://www.mixroutes.com/report?key=blog%7Cwem-rural&title=Wem+Rural&sub=Field+notes&back=%2Fnotes%2Fwem-rural), and the note gets an entry. Around it ## Next door to Wem Rural - [Wem](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/wem) town in Shropshire, England 3.1 km - [Prees](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/prees) village and civil parish in Shropshire, England, UK 3 km - [Whixall](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/whixall) village and civil parish in Shropshire, England, UK 3.8 km - [Weston-under-Redcastle](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/weston-under-redcastle) village and civil parish in Shropshire, England 3.9 km - [Aston](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/aston) village in Wem Rural civil parish, Shropshire, England 2.6 km - [Coton](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/coton) village in Wem Rural, Shropshire, United Kingdom 3.6 km [The place page for Wem Rural](https://www.mixroutes.com/places/wem-rural) [All the notes](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes) [Every note on United Kingdom](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes#c-GB) --- This is the markdown version of https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/wem-rural, for search crawlers and AI assistants. 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