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Checkley

Checkley is a village and civil parish in the district of Staffordshire Moorlands in the English county of Staffordshire.

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The place

Checkley is a village and civil parish in the district of Staffordshire Moorlands in the English county of Staffordshire.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Checkley

Airports
East Midlands (EMA), 44 km · Manchester (MAN), 50 km · Birmingham (BHX), 56 km
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Checkley
    54 km · quickest by road, 1h 26m · £6–8
  • Manchester, Greater Manchester → Checkley
    62 km · quickest by road, 1h 54m · £8–11
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Checkley
    53 km · quickest by road, 1h 36m · £7–9
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Checkley

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 Checkley. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get aroundAlso, you can use the cable car (Skyride) to get between the Park Entrance, Forbidden Valley which is an alien-themed area and Fountain Square, for The Towers, The World of David Walliams (one of the two children's areas of the park) and the Dark Forest.

From Wikivoyage: Alton Towers, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-03.

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

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    255 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    270 km
  3. 03
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    358 km
  4. 04
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    394 km
  5. 05
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    419 km

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

Around it

Next door to Checkley

Checkley is 51 km from Birmingham, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.