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Photo of Weston Park, a Grade II* registered house & garden near Shifnal, Staffordshire, central England.

Weston Park© Jonathan Hutchins / Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0

Places to explore near Cosford StationCosford

20 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 km SE · spans 14 counties

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.

4.9 km NE

Photo of Weston Park, a Grade II* registered house & garden near Shifnal, Staffordshire, central England.Highlight

Weston Park

House & garden near Shifnal

A 17th-century house in Capability Brown parkland, hung with Van Dyck and Stubbs.

5.4 km N

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.

9.8 km SE

Also nearbygood places nearby, nearest first

Photo of David Austin Roses, a garden near Albrighton, Shropshire, central England.

David Austin Roses

Garden near Albrighton

Free rose gardens at the world-famous Albrighton nursery, planted with hundreds of the breeder's English roses.

0.8 km S

Photo of St Bartholomew's Church, Tong, a church in Shropshire, central England.

St Bartholomew's Church, Tong

Church near Tong

Richly furnished 15th-century collegiate church nicknamed the 'Westminster Abbey of the Midlands' for its alabaster tombs.

2.1 km N

White Ladies (St Leonard's) Priory

Priory near Brewood

The remains of a medieval priory in Shropshire.

3.7 km NE

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.

6.3 km SE · 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.

8.9 km E · Cheshire, Staffordshire & Shropshire

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.

9.4 km NE · Staffordshire

Photo along the Severn Way, a 210-mile long-distance path running from Plynlimon to Bristol, England and Wales.

Severn Way

Long-distance path

Britain's longest riverside walk, shadowing the Severn from its peat-hag source on Plynlimon to the docks at Bristol.

9.7 km SW · spans 5 counties

Everything else within 10 km (9) — 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.