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Checkhill Bogs

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Checkhill Bogs is a Site of Special Scientific Interest in Staffordshire, covering 0.13 km². The county has 55 Sites of Special Scientific Interest; this is one. For more of the same, Kinver Edge and Brewin's Canal Section are close by. Stourbridge Town Station is about 5.4 km away to the south-east.

More places to visit near Checkhill Bogs

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.

0.9 km E · spans 14 counties

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.

0.9 km E · Staffordshire, Worcestershire & West Midlands

Photo of Kinver Edge, a Site of Special Scientific Interest in Staffordshire, central England.Highlight

Kinver Edge

SSSI near Kinver

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

4.5 km S

Photo of Holy Austin Rock Houses, a house near Kinver, Staffordshire, central England.Highlight

Holy Austin Rock Houses

House near Kinver

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

4.5 km SW

Photo along the Geopark Way, a 109-mile long-distance path running from Bridgnorth to Gloucester, England.

Geopark Way

Long-distance path

Bridgnorth to Gloucester through the Abberley and Malvern Hills Geopark — 700 million years of geology in 109 miles.

9.9 km W · spans 4 counties

Photo of Dudmaston, a house & garden near Bridgnorth, Shropshire, central England.

Dudmaston

House & garden near Bridgnorth

A 17th-century house above the Severn, famed for its modern art collection.

10.2 km W