Worth the trip around Birmingham
The places with the most to tell about. The numbers match the map.
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Birmingham has one castle within 25 km, Astley Castle, right at the edge at 24.3 km, so the ruins do the work: Weoley Castle at 6.4 km, Dudley Priory Ruins at 13.1 km, Clent Castle at 15.4 km and the Letocetum Roman Baths and Museum at 19.7 km. Perrott's Folly, a lookout tower from 1758, is 2.3 km from the center, and Metchley Roman Fort at 4.3 km leads the archaeology.
The Clent Hills supply the better peaks, Walton Hill at 14.6 km and the Wychbury Obelisk nearby, and four windmills made the list, Berkswell Windmill and Ruiton Windmill among them. Kingstanding Beacon at 7.4 km is one of 20 viewpoints. A short list, but every place on it can be a quest.
Each hexagon covers a little over 5 square kilometers. The brighter it glows, the more places are inside it. The numbers mark the highlights listed below; the dot in the middle is the center of Birmingham.
Few places to many
The places with the most to tell about. The numbers match the map.
A selection for each type, best known first. The number next to each heading counts everything RLQuest knows within the radius.
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RLQuest knows these places too. Which means:
Some of your daily quests lead to a real place near you. The app uses your location to check you were really there.
If you're the first person in RLQuest to complete a quest at a place, it's your first find. The Place Book shows you which kinds of place you're still missing.
Every walk uncovers tiles, each about 350 m across. Over time you can see which corners you know well, and where you've never set foot.
Place data © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database License. As of 2026-09-30. The list shows the places RLQuest knows and isn't complete. Photos come from Wikimedia Commons; author and license are credited on each photo.
