Stourport-on-Severn works well as a base: 10 minutes from Bewdley, 39km from Tewkesbury Abbey.
Stourport-on-Severn is in England, United Kingdom, with about 21,000 people. You drive on the left here. The nearest town is Bewdley, about 5 km away.
Stourport-on-Severn, often shortened to Stourport, is a town and civil parish in the Wyre Forest District of North Worcestershire, England, 4 miles to the south of Kidderminster and downstream on the River Severn from Bewdley. At the 2021 census, it had a population of 20,653.
Within an hour or so of Stourport-on-Severn: Shelsley Walsh Speed Hill Climb (12 km), Morgan Motor Company (24 km), Black Country Living Museum (24 km), Black Country Living Museum (Peaky Blinders) (24 km).
Are there any good drives near Stourport-on-Severn?
The nearest famous roads are Gospel Pass, A466 Wye Valley (Chepstow to Monmouth) and Elan Valley Mountain Road (Rhayader to Aberystwyth).
Where is Stourport-on-Severn?
Stourport-on-Severn is in England, United Kingdom, about 5 km from Bewdley.
Road trip
Drive to Stourport-on-Severn
Add it as a stop and the planner works out the driving, the nights and what's worth seeing on the way.
The world's oldest motorsport venue still using its original course, running since 1905. A 1,000-yard blast up a wooded Worcestershire hillside, steeped in Edwardian racing heritage.
12 km · about 25 min drive
landmark
Morgan Motor Company
The last family-owned British car maker in Malvern, offering factory tours where hand-crafted sports cars are built.
24 km · about 30 min drive
museum
Black Country Living Museum
Open-air museum rebuilding an industrial Black Country town: canal boats, a working replica Newcomen engine, 1930s fish and chips fried in beef dripping, and a coal mine walk. A key Peaky Blinders filming location.
24 km · about 30 min drive
film location
Black Country Living Museum (Peaky Blinders)
The open-air museum in Dudley provides the canal-side streets and workshops of Peaky Blinders' Small Heath.
24 km · about 30 min drive
landmark
The Peter James Collection
A remarkable private collection of over 100 classic and vintage cars on display in Birmingham.
31 km · about 35 min drive
landmark
Ironbridge Gorge
Birthplace of the Industrial Revolution and UNESCO World Heritage Site, home to the world's first iron bridge built in 1779.
35 km · about 40 min drive
landmark
Land Rover Experience Solihull
Off-road driving experience at Jaguar Land Rover's headquarters on a purpose-built terrain course.
36 km · about 40 min drive
cathedral
Tewkesbury Abbey
A Norman abbey church with the tallest surviving Romanesque tower in the world, saved from dissolution by the townspeople.
39 km · about 45 min drive
Driving roads near Stourport-on-Severn
8 named roads, passes and coastal drives within 100km.
49 kmCleeve HillThe highest point of the Cotswolds at 330 m, an open common above Cheltenham with views to the Malverns and Wales.
60 kmSymonds Yat RockA famous viewpoint 504 feet above the River Wye, where peregrine falcons nest and the river performs a dramatic horseshoe bend.
68 kmGospel PassThe highest road pass in Wales at 549m, a narrow single-track lane over the Black Mountains between Hay-on-Wye and Llanthony, with vast views across the Wye Valley from beneath Hay Bluff.
71 kmSkirrid Fawr (Ysgyryd Fawr)A landslipped 486m ridge above Abergavenny whose split profile gave rise to the legend it cracked at the Crucifixion.
72 kmWaun FachThe highest point of the Black Mountains at 811m, a broad peaty summit above the Vale of Ewyas and the Gospel Pass.