Manchester Airport 1 hr 14
National Trust - Wightwick Manor And Gardens (21 min.) timber-framed victorian manor with arts and crafts movement interiors and pre-raphaelite paintings. Walsall Arboretum (20 min.) a historic public park with formal gardens children s play area lido and outdoor fitness trail. National Trust - Shugborough Estate (23 min.) preserved georgian mansion and estate with costumed staff period exhibits garden trails and farm. Chasewater Railway (21 min.) preserved railway line running steam and diesel train trips from its victorian station headquarters. Spread Eagle Ph (1 min) Rodbaston College (10 min) Bantock House (22 min.) historic residence with oak-panelled rooms a museum of art and archaeology and a dutch garden. Black Country Living Museum (29 min.) exploration of life in an 1850s iron-working town with a coal seam forge steam engine and shops. Royal Air Force Museum (21 min.) aviation history seen through decommissioned planes housed in wartime hangers plus tech exhibits. Chasewater (16 min.) park reservoir deer canal and gull Crown Bridge (5 min) Spread Eagle Ph (3 min) Boscobel House And The Royal Oak (10 min.) a 1632 timber-framed lodge and historic farm with an oak tree where a fleeing charles ii once hid. Go Ape Cannock (18 min.) adventure-activity chain venue where groups explore the forest canopy via a treetop rope course. Wolverhampton Art Gallery (18 min.) collections of works from contemporary and pop art to georgian and victorian in a grand building. The Ancient High House (19 min.) tudor museum with period furniture edwardian shop and civil war room plus a yeomanry collection. Stafford Castle (20 min.) castle ruins with norman earthworks and visitor centre displays tracing 900-year history. Moseley Old Hall (11 min.) elizabethan farmhouse where king charles ii hid in 1651 with a typical knot garden and a cafe. |