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![Wem](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/59/Wem_High_Street_May_2020.jpg)

# Wem

Wem is a market town in the civil parish of Wem Urban, in Shropshire, England, 9 miles (14 km) north of Shrewsbury and 9 miles (14 km) south of Whitchurch.

[Plan a trip to Wem](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=Wem) [From Liverpool](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Liverpool&to=Wem)

## Every way there

- Liverpool → Wem 64 km · quickest by road, 1h 20m · £7–9 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/liverpool-to-wem) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Liverpool&to=Wem)
- Manchester, Greater Manchester → Wem 73 km · quickest by road, 1h 28m · £8–11 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/manchester-greater-manchester-to-wem) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Manchester%2C+Greater+Manchester&to=Wem)
- Birmingham, West Midlands → Wem 71 km · quickest by road, 1h 15m · £8–11 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/birmingham-west-midlands-to-wem) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Birmingham%2C+West+Midlands&to=Wem)

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 Wem, ranked by how widely it is written about, how you reach it, and the nearest places where we have researched how people move.

[Read the note on Wem](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/wem)

What Wem has

- Y Scheduled flights Liverpool (LPL), 54 km
- Y Trains and coaches Transitous carries 3 timetable feeds for this country, 2 with real-time
- N Ferries no crossing within 25 km
- Y Driving and taxi OpenStreetMap roads; cab fare from the country band
- N Bike and scooter share no share feed known
- N Cruises no open itinerary source anywhere

Y routable now · F found, not yet implemented · N no source known.

52.854°, -2.727°

See

## Worth seeing

1. Hawkestone Follies Weston Under Redcastle, SY4 5UY (Just 3 miles from Wem).

Text adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wem) and [Wikivoyage](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Wem), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Wikimedia Commons (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.


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