Barlaston

Worth seeing in and around Barlaston

4 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
   Montagu C. Butler Library

   The Montagu Butler Library is one of the most comprehensive collections dedicated to the Esperanto language. Housing an extensive array of literary works, historical documents, and scholarly resources, located at the Esperanto Association of Britain.

   600 m · library · Wikipedia
2. 02
   Meaford Hall

   Meaford Hall in Staffordshire, England is a 17th-century country house at Meaford, near Stone, Staffordshire. The River Trent runs through the estate's meadow.

   3.1 km · country house in Staffordshire, UK · Wikipedia
3. 03
   Barlaston Hall

   Barlaston Hall is an English Palladian country house in the village of Barlaston in Staffordshire, on a ridge overlooking the valley of the River Trent to the west, about 5 miles south of Stoke-on-Trent, with the towns of Stone about 4 miles to the south, and Stafford about 11 miles south. It was bought by the Wedgwood pottery company in 1937, but disrepair and subsidence due to coal mining brought the hall close to demolition in the early 1980s.

   400 m · English Palladian country house in the village of Barlaston in Staffordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
4. 04
   Oulton Abbey

   St Mary's Abbey, Oulton is a former Benedictine convent located in the village of Oulton near Stone in Staffordshire, England. The Abbey church is Grade II* listed, and other buildings are Grade II. The Benedictine community was founded in 1624 in Ghent, from a motherhouse established in Brussels in 1598 by Lady Mary Percy.

   3.4 km · suppressed Benedictine monastery located in the village of Oulton near Stone in Staffordshire, England · Wikipedia

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Getting to Barlaston

Airports

Manchester (MAN), 46 km · East Midlands (EMA), 57 km · Birmingham (BHX), 61 km

Stations

Barlaston railway station, 700 m · Wedgwood railway station, 1 km

• Manchester, Greater Manchester → Barlaston

  60 km · quickest by road, 1h 38m · £7–10
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• Nottingham, Leicestershire → Barlaston

  68 km · quickest by road, 1h 38m · £7–10
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• Birmingham, West Midlands → Barlaston

  54 km · quickest by road, 1h 14m · £6–8
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