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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.

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The place

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.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

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.

  1. 01
    Church 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
  2. 02
    Beaudesert

    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
  3. 03
    Church 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
  4. 04
    High Bridge

    High Bridge spans the River Trent between Mavesyn Ridware and Handsacre in Staffordshire, England.

    1.1 km · bridge in Staffordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Armitage 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

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Armitage

Airports
Birmingham (BHX), 33 km · East Midlands (EMA), 38 km · Manchester (MAN), 73 km
  • Manchester, Greater Manchester → Armitage
    86 km · quickest by road, 2h 19m · £10–14
  • Liverpool → Armitage
    104 km · quickest by road, 2h 30m · £12–16
  • Leeds, West Yorkshire → Armitage
    119 km · quickest by road, 2h 22m · £14–19
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Not yet researched

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.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    232 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    259 km
  3. 03
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    380 km
  4. 04
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    416 km
  5. 05
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    441 km

If you know how people move in Armitage – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Armitage

Armitage is 29 km from Birmingham, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.