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Wigginton and Hopwas

Wigginton and Hopwas is a civil parish in Lichfield District, Staffordshire, England.

Wigginton and Hopwas
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The place

Wigginton and Hopwas is a civil parish in Lichfield District, Staffordshire, England. The villages of Wigginton and Hopwas, that make up the parish, lie 2 miles to the north and north-west, respectively, of Tamworth. They are separated by the River Tame, the Coventry Canal and the West Coast Main Line. The parish also includes the hamlet of Comberford.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Wigginton and Hopwas

10 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
    Tamworth Castle

    Tamworth Castle, a Grade I listed building, is a Norman castle overlooking the mouth of the River Anker into the Tame in the town of Tamworth in Staffordshire, England. Before boundary changes in 1889, however, the castle was within the edge of Warwickshire while most of the town belonged to Staffordshire.

    2.4 km · Grade I listed Norman motte and bailey castle and museum in Tamworth, Staffordshire, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Church of St Editha

    The Church of St Editha is a Church of England parish church and Grade I listed building in Tamworth, Staffordshire, England.

    2.3 km · church in Tamworth, England · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    St Chad's Church, Hopwas

    St Chad's Church is in the village of Hopwas, Staffordshire, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Tamworth, the archdeaconry of Lichfield and the diocese of Lichfield.

    1.9 km · grade II listed church in Wigginton and Hopwas, Lichfield, Staffordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    The Lamb Ground

    The Lamb Ground is a football stadium in the district of Kettlebrook, in Tamworth, Staffordshire, England and is the home of Tamworth Football Club. It has a capacity of 4,000, and is approximately half a mile south of Tamworth railway station.

    3 km · football stadium in Tamworth, England · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Whittington Old Hall

    Whittington Old Hall is a 16th-century mansion house at Whittington, Staffordshire, England, which has been subdivided into separate residential apartments. It is a Grade II* listed building.

    3.8 km · country house in Staffordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Bolehall Viaduct

    Bolehall Viaduct, also known as Bolebridge Viaduct or the Anker Viaduct, and known locally as the 19 Arches, is a railway bridge in Bolehall, Tamworth, Staffordshire, England. It was designed by George Stephenson and opened in 1839 for the Birmingham and Derby Junction Railway.

    2.9 km · viaduct in Tamworth, Staffordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Moat House

    The Moat House is a Grade II* building in Tamworth, Staffordshire, England, in what were once the grounds of Tamworth Castle. The summer house, in the rear beer garden, is a Grade II listed building.

    2.1 km · Grade II* listed building in Tamworth, Staffordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Fazeley Junction

    Fazeley Junction is the name of the canal junction where the authorised Birmingham and Fazeley Canal terminates and meets the Coventry Canal at Fazeley, near Tamworth, Staffordshire, England.

    4 km · canal junction in the uk · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Packington Hall

    Packington Hall in Staffordshire was an English country house designed by architect James Wyatt in the 18th century. Originally built for the Babington family, it became the home of the Levett family of Wychnor Hall, in that same county, until the first half of the twentieth century.

    3 km · country house in Staffordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Amington Hall

    Amington Hall is an early-19th-century former country house at Amington, near Tamworth, Staffordshire, which has been converted into residential apartments.

    3.7 km · house in Tamworth, Staffordshire, England, UK · 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.

Go there

Getting to Wigginton and Hopwas

Airports
Birmingham (BHX), 22 km · East Midlands (EMA), 33 km · Manchester (MAN), 86 km
Stations
Tamworth railway station, 2.5 km
  • Manchester, Greater Manchester → Wigginton and Hopwas
    98 km · quickest by road, 2h 34m · £13–17
  • Liverpool → Wigginton and Hopwas
    118 km · quickest by road, 2h 22m · £14–19
  • London → Wigginton and Hopwas
    168 km · quickest by road, 3h 12m · £18–24
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Wigginton and Hopwas

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 Wigginton and Hopwas. 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

    220 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    260 km
  3. 03
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    394 km
  4. 04
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    430 km
  5. 05
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    454 km

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Around it

Next door to Wigginton and Hopwas

Wigginton and Hopwas is 22 km from Birmingham, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Tamworthtown in Staffordshire, England2.3 km
  • Fazeleytown and civil parish in Staffordshire, United Kingdom3.9 km
  • Whittingtonvillage and civil parish in Lichfield District, Staffordshire, United Kingdom3.7 km
  • Fisherwickhamlet and civil parish in Staffordshire, England2.8 km
  • Hopwasvillage in Staffordshire, England, UK1.8 km
  • Wiggintonvillage in Staffordshire, United Kingdom1.9 km