County town of Shropshire, England

Shrewsbury

Shrewsbury is a market town and civil parish in Shropshire, England.

Plan a trip to Shrewsbury→From Liverpool

Every way there

Liverpool → Shrewsbury
79 km · quickest by road, 2h 6m · £9–12
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Birmingham, West Midlands → Shrewsbury
63 km · quickest by road, 1h 27m · £7–9
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Manchester, Greater Manchester → Shrewsbury
92 km · quickest by road, 2h 34m · £10–14
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

The field note

What is in and around Shrewsbury, 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 Shrewsbury has

YScheduled flightsLiverpool (LPL), 70 km
YTrains and coachesTransitous carries 3 timetable feeds for this country, 2 with real-time
NFerriesno crossing within 25 km
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.

52.708°, -2.754°

It is sited on the River Severn, 33 miles (53 km) northwest of Wolverhampton, 15 miles (24 km) west of Telford, 31 miles (50 km) southeast of Wrexham and 53 miles (85 km) north of Hereford. At the 2021 census, the parish had a population of 76,782. It is the county town of the ceremonial county of Shropshire.

How locals move

Getting around Shrewsbury the local way

Go nextNearby destinations that are suitable for day trips include: York, PA: Explore the unofficial, first capital of the United States and the original Harley-Davidson manufacturing factory.

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