Suburb of Birmingham in West Midlands, England

Handsworth Wood

Handsworth Wood is a suburb and electoral ward of Birmingham in the West Midlands county, England.

Plan a trip to Handsworth Wood→From Nottingham, Leicestershire

Every way there

Nottingham, Leicestershire → Handsworth Wood
71 km · quickest by road, 1h 36m · £8–10
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Manchester, Greater Manchester → Handsworth Wood
109 km · quickest by road, 2h 32m · £12–16
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Liverpool → Handsworth Wood
122 km · quickest by road, 2h 21m · £14–18
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The field note

What is in and around Handsworth Wood, ranked by how widely it is written about, how you reach it, and the nearest places where we have researched how people move.

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What Handsworth Wood has

YScheduled flightsBirmingham, West Midlands (BHX), 13 km
NTrains and coachesno timetable feed known for this country
YFerriesBrindleyplace Water Bus Stop, 4 km, Sherborne Wharf; sailings estimated
YDriving and taxiOpenStreetMap roads; cab fare from the country band
NBike and scooter shareno share feed known
NCruisesno open itinerary source anywhere

Y routable now · F found, not yet implemented · N no source known. Nearest place with more: Birmingham, 4 km.

52.512°, -1.918°

How locals move

Getting around Handsworth Wood the local way

Get inHolyhead's ferry port ensures that the north of Wales is well connected with the whole West Midlands.

From Wikivoyage: West Midlands (county), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us. Last edited 2026-09.

Text adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Brianboru100 (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.