Transport Links
The A3400 provides transport links to the neighbouring settlements, notable Birmingham and Stratford-upon-Avon and also connects to the M40 northwards at Hockley Heath affording direct motorway access to London. Regular bus services on this road provide transport to Birmingham and Stratford-upon Avon.
The Birmingham and Stratford-upon-Avon Canal crosses the parish, leaving it near Silesbourne Farm, close to which there was a hermitage, mentioned in 1428 and 1470. It is carried over the main road Stratford to Birmingham road by a cast-iron aqueduct bearing the date 1813. There are moorings and a canal boat marina in Wootton Wawen Basin. The canal was built by William James of Henley-in-Arden, who was a pioneer of the railway system. A cast-iron plaque on the aqueduct records details of the building of the canal.
The Monarch's Way, a long distance footpath which approximates the escape route taken by King Charles II in 1651 after being defeated in the Battle of Worcester, passes through Wootton Wawen.
Wootton Wawen railway station opened in 1908 on a branch line of the Great Western Railway, it is now the Birmingham to Stratford Line.
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