Places to explore near Wolverhampton

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

4.1 km NE · spans 14 counties

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

4.6 km W

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

12.1 km NW

Heathland and forest, an accessible AONB.

12.4 km N

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

16 km NW

A wooded sandstone ridge above Kinver where families once lived in houses cut into the rock, now a National Trust reserve

17 km SW

Restored troglodyte dwellings carved into the sandstone of Kinver Edge, the last inhabited rock houses in England, lived in until the 1960s.

17.1 km SW

Cannock Chase hub with a café and a preserved Great War hut, the starting point for heathland walks and family trails across the Chase.

18.8 km NE

A John Claudius Loudon design of 1832, arranged around four Victorian glasshouses.

19 km SE

The canal crossroads at the heart of Birmingham, narrowboats moored among the old warehouses where the city's waterways meet.

19.1 km SE

National Trust hills of woodland and heath near Birmingham, with a summit topograph and views to the Cotswolds and Wales.

19.5 km S

Roman staging post with visible bathhouse remains.

19.9 km NE

London to Birmingham by water — the trunk route of the canal age, with arms reaching Leicester, Aylesbury, Northampton and Paddington.

20.2 km SE · spans 9 counties

Two-tier town split by the Severn, its High Town and Low Town linked by a cliff railway and a leaning castle keep.

20.5 km W · Shropshire

Riverside museum in the old Coalport works telling the story of Shropshire's fine porcelain, one of ten Ironbridge Gorge museums.

22.1 km W

Recreated Victorian town in the Ironbridge Gorge where costumed shopkeepers, a foundry and a fairground bring the industrial age alive.

22.3 km W

The only medieval English cathedral with three spires, guarding the Lichfield Gospels, the carved Lichfield Angel and Flemish Herkenrode glass.

22.9 km NE

Solemn memorial on Cannock Chase to the Polish officers murdered at Katyn, set in light woodland near the German and Commonwealth war cemeteries.

23 km NE

Museum of decorative tiles in the former Craven Dunnill works by the Severn, part of the Ironbridge Gorge collection.

23.1 km W

Sixteen-mile heritage steam line following the Severn between Bewdley, Bridgnorth and Kidderminster.

23.8 km S

Through the old Forest of Arden to Shakespeare's town, saved by volunteers in the 1960s restoration that changed canal history.

23.9 km SE · Warwickshire & West Midlands

Riverside village strung along the Severn beneath the world's first iron bridge, heart of a World Heritage gorge.

24.5 km W · Shropshire

The world's first major cast-iron bridge, cast at Coalbrookdale and thrown over the Severn in 1779, heart of a World Heritage gorge.

24.6 km W

Grand estate with mysterious monuments and follies.

24.9 km N

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

0.4 km NE · West Midlands

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

0.9 km W

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

1 km E · West Midlands & Staffordshire

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

2.4 km NW · Staffordshire, Worcestershire & West Midlands

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

3.4 km N · Cheshire, Staffordshire & Shropshire

A country park in Staffordshire.

5.4 km S

A National Trust place in Staffordshire.

5.9 km N

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

6.5 km W · Staffordshire, Derbyshire & Cheshire

A country park in West Midlands.

6.7 km E