Places to explore near Droitwich Spa StationDroitwich Spa

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

0.6 km SW · spans 14 counties

An open-air pool topped up with natural brine from under the town, salty enough to make you float noticeably higher.

0.9 km E

Open-air museum of rescued and rebuilt buildings, from a working windmill to a chain-making shop, near Bromsgrove.

7.8 km NE

The Bishops of Worcester's moated palace for over a thousand years, now a county museum.

9.8 km NW

Riverside cathedral above the Severn holding King John's tomb and a fine Norman crypt and chapter house.

9.8 km SW

Berkeley family gardens where the Willmott sisters' peonies still flower each May and June.

9.8 km S

The salt town's barge and junction canals, derelict for eighty years and reopened as a ring in 2011.

0.3 km N · Worcestershire

Droitwich Spa to Broadway over the summit of Bredon Hill — Worcestershire river country rising to the Cotswold escarpment.

0.9 km E · Worcestershire

Down from Birmingham to the Severn at Worcester by fifty-eight locks, thirty of them in the great Tardebigge flight.

2.8 km E · Worcestershire & West Midlands

Well-kept village of black-and-white timber-framed houses strung along one long street north of Worcester.

4.9 km W · Worcestershire

A red-brick William-and-Mary house of 1706 with formal gardens by George London.

5.2 km E

Britain's longest river in its working stretch — locks and lave-net weirs from Stourport down to Gloucester.

5.4 km W · Worcestershire & Gloucestershire

A National Trust place in Worcestershire.

5.4 km SW

Olde-worlde beamed gastropub with a garden, doing fresh pub classics with a twist.

5.4 km N