Armitage
Armitage is a village in the Lichfield district, in Staffordshire, England, on the Trent and Mersey Canal south of Rugeley and north of Lichfield.

Armitage is a village in the Lichfield district, in Staffordshire, England, on the Trent and Mersey Canal south of Rugeley and north of Lichfield. With the village of Handsacre it forms the civil parish of Armitage with Handsacre, which had a population of 5,335 at the 2011 Census.
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Worth seeing in and around Armitage
5 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Church of St Michael and All Angels, Hamstall Ridware
The Church of St Michael and All Angels is a parish church and Grade I listed building in the village of Hamstall Ridware, Staffordshire. The church is situated in a remote position to the north of the village accessed by a 250 m pathway through pasture land.
4 km · church in Hamstall Ridware, Staffordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 02Beaudesert
Beaudesert was an estate and stately home on the southern edge of Cannock Chase in Staffordshire. It was one of the family seats of the Paget family, the Marquesses of Anglesey.
3.9 km · English country house in Longdon, Lichfield, Staffordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 03Church of St Nicholas, Mavesyn Ridware
The Church of St Nicholas is a Grade I listed parish church in the village of Mavesyn Ridware, Staffordshire, England. The church is situated at the eastern end of the village approximately 370 m north of the River Trent and just to the north of the Gatehouse of the former ancient Manor House.
900 m · church in Mavesyn Ridware, Staffordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 04High Bridge
High Bridge spans the River Trent between Mavesyn Ridware and Handsacre in Staffordshire, England.
1.1 km · bridge in Staffordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 05Armitage Park
Armitage Park is a 19th-century Grade II listed country house at Armitage near Rugeley, Staffordshire.
1.8 km · country house in Staffordshire, England · Wikipedia
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Getting to Armitage
- Airports
- Birmingham (BHX), 33 km · East Midlands (EMA), 38 km · Manchester (MAN), 73 km
- Manchester, Greater Manchester → Armitage86 km · quickest by road, 2h 19m · £10–14
- Liverpool → Armitage104 km · quickest by road, 2h 30m · £12–16
- Leeds, West Yorkshire → Armitage119 km · quickest by road, 2h 22m · £14–19
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No local-transport research exists yet for Armitage
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Armitage. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
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Next door to Armitage
Armitage is 29 km from Birmingham, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Hamstall Ridwarevillage and civil parish in Staffordshire, United Kingdom3.8 km
- Mavesyn Ridwarevillage and civil parish in Staffordshire, United Kingdom1 km
- Longdonvillage and civil parish in Staffordshire, UK1.8 km
- Armitage with Handsacrecivil parish in Lichfield, Staffordshire, England400 m
- Breretonvillage in Staffordshire, England3.1 km
- Hill Ridwarevillage in Staffordshire, England, UK1.9 km