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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.

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The place

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.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

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.

  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.

    3.3 km · Grade I listed Norman motte and bailey castle and museum in Tamworth, Staffordshire, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Drayton 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
  3. 03
    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.

    2.7 km · football stadium in Tamworth, England · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    St 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
  5. 05
    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.

    3.4 km · church in Tamworth, England · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    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.

    3.6 km · Grade II* listed building in Tamworth, Staffordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Accelerator

    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
  8. 08
    Drayton 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
  9. 09
    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.

    2.4 km · canal junction in the uk · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Stormforce 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

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.

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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 → Wilnecote
    104 km · quickest by road, 2h 35m · £13–17
  • London → Wilnecote
    162 km · quickest by road, 3h 6m · £16–21
  • Liverpool → Wilnecote
    124 km · quickest by road, 2h 24m · £14–19
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Not yet researched

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.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    215 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    260 km
  3. 03
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    400 km
  4. 04
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    436 km
  5. 05
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    451 km

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Around it

Next door to Wilnecote

Wilnecote is 21 km from Birmingham, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Tamworthtown in Staffordshire, England3.4 km
  • 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