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Photo of Wightwick Manor, a Grade II registered house & garden near Wolverhampton, the West Midlands, central England.

Wightwick Manor© Eric Marsh / Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0

Places to explore near Bilbrook StationBilbrook

25 places within 10 km — the standouts first, nearest first within each group.

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Worth the tripnational icons and local highlights within reach

Photo along the Monarch's Way, a 625-mile long-distance path running from Worcester to Shoreham-by-Sea, England.Highlight

Monarch's Way

Long-distance path

England's longest inland waymarked trail, tracing Charles II's escape route from defeat at Worcester in 1651 to the ship waiting at Shoreham.

1.4 km E · spans 14 counties

Photo of Wightwick Manor, a Grade II registered house & garden near Wolverhampton, the West Midlands, central England.Highlight

Wightwick Manor

House & garden near Wolverhampton

Arts-and-Crafts house rich in Pre-Raphaelite art.

4.5 km S

Photo of Boscobel House, a Grade II registered house & garden near Brewood, Shropshire, central England.Highlight

Boscobel House

House & garden near Brewood

The hunting lodge where Charles II hid after Worcester, with the Royal Oak descendant in its field.

6.5 km NW

Also nearbygood places nearby, nearest first

Photo along the Staffordshire Way, a 92-mile long-distance path running from Mow Cop to Kinver Edge, England.

Staffordshire Way

Long-distance path

Mow Cop to Kinver Edge behind the Staffordshire Knot waymark — gritstone, Cannock Chase heath and red sandstone to finish.

1.2 km W · Staffordshire, Derbyshire & Cheshire

Photo of the Shropshire Union Canal, a 67-mile canal running from Wolverhampton to Ellesmere Port, England.

Shropshire Union Canal

Canal

Telford's dead-straight last great canal, running embankment-and-cutting from the Black Country to the Mersey at Ellesmere Port.

1.4 km E · Cheshire, Staffordshire & Shropshire

Photo of the Staffordshire & Worcestershire Canal, a 46-mile canal running from Great Haywood Junction to Stourport-on-Severn, central England.

Staffordshire & Worcestershire Canal

Canal

Brindley's cross-country link of 1772 from the Trent & Mersey to the Severn, ending at the purpose-built port of Stourport.

2.8 km E · Staffordshire, Worcestershire & West Midlands

Photo of the Birmingham Canal Main Line, a canal running from Birmingham to Wolverhampton, central England.

Birmingham Canal Main Line

Canal

The spine of the Birmingham Canal Navigations — Brindley's winding old main line and Telford's ruler-straight new one, side by side.

3.3 km SE · West Midlands

Photo of West Park, a Grade II* registered house & garden near Wolverhampton, the West Midlands, central England.

West Park

House & garden near Wolverhampton

A Victorian people's park on old racecourse land with an 1882 cast-iron bandstand.

4.9 km SE

Photo of Moseley Old Hall, a house & garden near Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, central England.

Moseley Old Hall

House & garden near Wolverhampton

A National Trust place in Staffordshire.

6 km E

Photo of Brewood, a village in Staffordshire, central England.

Brewood

Village

Handsome canal-side village of Georgian houses around a medieval church, on the Shropshire Union, with the gothic folly of Speedwell Castle at its centre.

6 km N · Staffordshire

Photo of the Wyrley & Essington Canal, a 17-mile canal running from Wolverhampton to Brownhills, central England.

Wyrley & Essington Canal

Canal

The 'Curly Wyrley' — a contour canal looping around the northern Black Country from Wolverhampton toward Brownhills.

6.5 km SE · West Midlands & Staffordshire

White Ladies (St Leonard's) Priory

Priory near Brewood

The remains of a medieval priory in Shropshire.

6.8 km NW

Everything else within 10 km (13) — reserves, earthworks & places to check before travelling

Ordered by how far each place is worth travelling for, then by distance. Distances are straight-line to the nearest edge of each place — paths wind, of course.