Haywood Junction

#1917 among destinations in the United Kingdom

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Haywood Junction, or Great Haywood Junction, is the name of the canal junction where the Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal terminates and meets the Trent and Mersey Canal near to the village of Great Haywood, Staffordshire, England. ()

Coordinates: 52°48'8"N, 2°0'26"W

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Haywood Junction – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Shugborough Hall, Staffordshire County Museum, Essex Bridge, St Mary's Abbey.

~1490 ftSW
Museum, Historical place, History museum
Shugborough Hall, Stafford
8 min walk • Shugborough Hall, a quintessential example of a stately home in Great Haywood, is nestled within the lush English countryside of Stafford, United Kingdom. This grand estate, replete with classic Georgian architecture, offers a glimpse into the opulent lifestyle of the...
~1720 ftSW
Museum
Staffordshire County Museum
9 min walk • Staffordshire County Museum is housed in the Servants' Quarters of Shugborough Hall, Milford, near Stafford, Staffordshire, England. The museum features a restored Victorian kitchen, laundry and brewhouse as well as permanent galleries and temporary exhibitions.
~640 ftSW
Bridge
Essex Bridge
4 min walk • Essex Bridge is a Grade I listed packhorse bridge over the River Trent near Great Haywood, Staffordshire, England. Spanning the Trent 100 metres downstream of its confluence with the River Sow, it was built in the late sixteenth century by the Earl of Essex a favourite of Queen Elizabeth I.
1.1 miSE
Monastery
St Mary's Abbey
29 min walk • Saint Mary's Abbey in Colwich, Staffordshire was a monastery of Roman Catholic nuns of the English Benedictine Congregation, founded in 1623 at Cambrai, Flanders, in the Spanish Netherlands, and closed down in 2020.
~1180 ftW
Tomb
Shugborough inscription
6 min walk • The Shugborough Inscription is a sequence of letters – O U O S V A V V, between the letters D M – carved on the 18th-century Shepherd's Monument in the grounds of Shugborough Hall in Staffordshire, England, below a mirror image of Nicolas Poussin's painting the Shepherds of Arcadia.
~1820 ftSE
Canal
Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal
9 min walk • The Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal is a navigable narrow canal in Staffordshire and Worcestershire in the English Midlands.
0.7 miW
Lake, Canal
Tixall Wide
19 min walk • Tixall Wide, also known as Tixall Broad or The Broad Water, is a body of water that forms part of the Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal near Tixall in Staffordshire, England, to the south of the former Tixall Hall.
~770 ftNW
Canal
Black country ring
4 min walk • The Black Country Ring is a UK canal ring composed of the Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal, Birmingham Main Line, Birmingham and Fazeley Canal, Coventry Canal and Trent and Mersey Canal.
1.2 miSW
Tunnel
Shugborough Tunnel, Cannock Chase
30 min walk • The Shugborough Tunnel is a 777-yard railway tunnel on the Trent Valley line running under part of the Shugborough Estate in Colwich, Staffordshire, England.

Haywood Junction

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Haywood Junction – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)