Getting here · Wyre Forest, Worcestershire

Getting here, and where everyone stays

There is no camping on site and the music stops at eleven, so how your guests arrive and how they get home is worth settling early. This is everything we would tell you on the phone.

The end of the night

Two ways home, and one of them needs booking

Music stops at eleven and people are away shortly after. Parking is inside the wood, a short walk from the canvas, so anyone who drove walks to their own car rather than out to a road in the dark.

If you would rather your guests drank, a coach is the cleanest answer there is: one vehicle, one pick-up, and nobody counting their drinks. There is room for a coach at the gate.

Do not assume taxis. They will not be sitting outside a wood at eleven at night. Book them in advance and put the arrangement in the invitations. It is the most common end-of-night muddle at rural venues and it is entirely avoidable.

Coaches

Who we would ring first

Whittle Coaches

WhereKidderminster
Phone01562 820002

Foley Business Park, Stourport Road, Kidderminster DY11 7QL. The depot is about fifteen minutes from the gate, so the driver knows the roads and you are not paying for a coach to travel from another county before your day starts.

Yarranton Bros

WhereTenbury Wells
Phone01584 881229

Eardiston Garage, Eardiston, Tenbury Wells WR15 8JL. Running since 1921, covering Worcestershire, Herefordshire and Shropshire.

We take no commission from anyone on this page. They are here because they are close and they are good.

Taxis

Book them rather than hope for them

Regency Taxis

CoversKidderminster, Stourport, Bewdley
Phone01562 66666

Around the clock, trading since 1977, with online and app booking as well as the phone.

What to tell guests

Give them the number with the invitation, and ask anyone who wants a taxi to book it before the day rather than at eleven o’clock at night. A wood is not a high street.

By train

Kidderminster, not Bewdley

Kidderminster is the nearest mainline station, about fifteen minutes away, with four trains an hour to Birmingham Snow Hill and Moor Street and two an hour to Worcester.

One warning worth passing on. Bewdley has a station of its own, but it is the Severn Valley Railway — a heritage steam line. Lovely, and no use whatsoever for getting anybody here from Birmingham. Tell people Kidderminster.

Rooms

Where three hundred people sleep

There is no accommodation on site. Bewdley is the nearer and prettier of the two towns; Kidderminster has the beds. For a large guest list you will want both.

The one to send first

Safari Lodges at West Midlands Safari Park. About ten minutes away, and the only place near here where your guests can make a weekend of it and the children will insist on coming. Worth putting at the top of your own list rather than the bottom.

Bewdley — inns and hotels

The Mug House Inn & Restaurant01299 402543
The George HotelBewdley
The Bewdley InnBewdley
The Horn & TrumpetDog Lane, Bewdley
Wharton Park Golf & Country ClubBewdley

Kidderminster — for numbers

Premier Inn Kidderminster0333 321 9263

Near Weavers Wharf, and a short walk from the mainline station — which makes it the sensible recommendation for anybody coming by train.

Guest houses and cottages

Severn Valley Guest House, Whispering Place, Bank House Bewdley; and for the wedding party, self-catering at Quay Cottage, Wyre Court Cottage, Dobbies Den, Beau Cottage, Forest View Retreat and The Old Stable at Far Forest.

A fuller list of everywhere in the town is kept by Visit Bewdley.

Next step

Come and see how it all sits

Viewings are by appointment, one couple at a time, any day of the week. We will walk the whole site, show you where the coach turns and where people park, and answer the awkward questions.

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