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Wheaton Aston

Wheaton Aston is a small village in Staffordshire, England about 9 miles (14 km) south west of Stafford and 7 miles (11 km) west of Cannock.

Wheaton Aston
Wheaton Aston · Gillett's Crossing from Bristol, United Kingdom
The place

Wheaton Aston is a small village in Staffordshire, England about 9 miles (14 km) south west of Stafford and 7 miles (11 km) west of Cannock. It is located beside Bridge 19 of the Shropshire Union Canal. The civil parish is called Lapley, Stretton and Wheaton Aston.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Wheaton Aston

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 John's Church, Stretton

    St John's Church, Stretton is the Church of England parish church of Stretton, South Staffordshire.

    3.6 km · church in Stretton, South Staffordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Belvide Reservoir

    Belvide Reservoir is a reservoir in South Staffordshire, England. It was built in 1833 to supply the Birmingham and Liverpool Junction Canal, and has been managed as a nature reserve since 1977.

    3.4 km · Canal feeder reservoir and nature reserve in south Staffordshire, England. · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Stretton Aqueduct

    Stretton Aqueduct is a short cast iron canal aqueduct between Stretton and Brewood, and near to Belvide Reservoir, in south Staffordshire, England. Designed by Thomas Telford and bearing his name plus its date of construction, 1832, it carries the Shropshire Union Canal 30 feet over the A5 road at a skewed angle.

    2.8 km · canal aqueduct in Staffordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia

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Getting to Wheaton Aston

Airports
Birmingham (BHX), 43 km · East Midlands (EMA), 62 km · Manchester (MAN), 71 km
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Wheaton Aston
    34 km · quickest by road, 50 min · £4–5
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Wheaton Aston
    77 km · quickest by road, 1h 52m · £9–12
  • Manchester, Greater Manchester → Wheaton Aston
    86 km · quickest by road, 2h 13m · £11–14
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Wheaton Aston

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 Wheaton Aston. 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
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    234 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    239 km
  3. 03
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    371 km
  4. 04
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    407 km
  5. 05
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    431 km

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Around it

Next door to Wheaton Aston

Wheaton Aston is 34 km from Birmingham, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.