Wilnecote
Wilnecote is a suburban area about two miles (3.2 km) south-east of Tamworth, in the Tamworth district, in the county of Staffordshire, England, however, it also lies within the historic county of Warwickshire.

Wilnecote is a suburban area about two miles (3.2 km) south-east of Tamworth, in the Tamworth district, in the county of Staffordshire, England, however, it also lies within the historic county of Warwickshire. It lies between the River Tame to the west and Kettle Brook to the north and east. It is one of the largest communities in the town.
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Worth seeing in and around Wilnecote
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.
- 01Tamworth 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.
3.3 km · Grade I listed Norman motte and bailey castle and museum in Tamworth, Staffordshire, United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 02Drayton Manor Theme Park
Drayton Manor Resort is a family theme park, zoo and accommodation in the grounds of the former Drayton Manor, in Drayton Bassett, Staffordshire, England, UK. It covers 180 acres, of which about 113 acres are in use. It is the fourth-largest amusement park in the UK by land area at 280 acres.
3.1 km · Theme park and zoo · Wikipedia - 03The 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.
2.7 km · football stadium in Tamworth, England · Wikipedia - 04St Editha's Church, Amington
Amington Parish Church is a Grade II listed parish church in the Church of England in Amington.
3.4 km · grade II listed church in Tamworth, Staffordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 05Church of St Editha
The Church of St Editha is a Church of England parish church and Grade I listed building in Tamworth, Staffordshire, England.
3.4 km · church in Tamworth, England · Wikipedia - 06Moat 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.
3.6 km · Grade II* listed building in Tamworth, Staffordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 07Accelerator
Accelerator is a steel shuttle roller coaster at Drayton Manor Resort.
3.1 km · roller coaster at Drayton Manor Theme Park, Drayton Bassett, Staffordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 08Drayton Manor
Drayton Manor, one of Britain's lost houses, was a British stately home at Drayton Bassett, since its formation in the District of Lichfield, Staffordshire, England. In modern administrative areas, it was first put into Tamworth Poor Law Union and similar Rural Sanitary District, 1894 to 1934 saw its inclusion in Tamworth Rural District, and in the next forty years it lay in the Lichfield Rural District.
3.1 km · country house in Drayton Bassett, Staffordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 09Fazeley 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.
2.4 km · canal junction in the uk · Wikipedia - 10Stormforce 10
Stormforce 10 is a flume water ride located at Drayton Manor Resort near Tamworth, Staffordshire, England. Opened in 1999, the attraction was developed in association with the Royal National Lifeboat Institution to simulate the experience of a lifeboat rescue mission during a severe storm.
3.2 km · theme park ride to recreate a lifeboat rescue · Wikipedia
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Getting to Wilnecote
- Airports
- Birmingham (BHX), 18 km · East Midlands (EMA), 34 km · Manchester (MAN), 92 km
- Stations
- Wilnecote railway station, 800 m · Tamworth railway station, 3.4 km
- Manchester, Greater Manchester → Wilnecote104 km · quickest by road, 2h 35m · £13–17
- London → Wilnecote162 km · quickest by road, 3h 6m · £16–21
- Liverpool → Wilnecote124 km · quickest by road, 2h 24m · £14–19
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Wilnecote
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 Wilnecote. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
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If you know how people move in Wilnecote – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Wilnecote
Wilnecote is 21 km from Birmingham, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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- Fazeleytown and civil parish in Staffordshire, United Kingdom2.7 km
- Dordonvillage in Warwickshire, England3.7 km
- Polesworthvillage and civil parish in Warwickshire, UK3.5 km
- Drayton Bassettvillage in Staffordshire, England, UK3.6 km
- Wood Endvillage in Kingsbury, Warwickshire, United Kingdom3.3 km