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Draycott in the Moors

Draycott in the Moors is a village in Staffordshire, England.

The place

Draycott in the Moors is a village in Staffordshire, England. It is between Stoke on Trent and Uttoxeter near the River Blythe. It is two and a half miles from Cheadle.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Draycott in the Moors

2 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
    Dilhorne Hall

    Dilhorne Hall located in Dilhorne, Staffordshire, England, was the ancestral home of the Buller family.

    3.7 km · country house in Dilhorne, Staffordshire, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Roman Catholic Church of St Mary

    St Mary's Church is a Roman Catholic church in Cresswell, a hamlet near Draycott in the Moors in Staffordshire, England, and in the Archdiocese of Birmingham. The building, completed in 1816, is Grade II listed.

    800 m · church building in Draycott in the Moors, Staffordshire Moorlands, Staffordshire, England, UK · 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.

Go there

Getting to Draycott in the Moors

Airports
Manchester (MAN), 47 km · East Midlands (EMA), 49 km · Birmingham (BHX), 59 km
Stations
Blythe Bridge railway station, 3 km · Caverswall Road railway station, 3.3 km · Cresswell railway station, 1 km · Tean railway station, 1.2 km
  • Manchester, Greater Manchester → Draycott in the Moors
    61 km · quickest by road, 1h 51m · £8–10
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Draycott in the Moors
    59 km · quickest by road, 1h 30m · £7–9
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Draycott in the Moors
    53 km · quickest by road, 1h 29m · £6–8
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Draycott in the Moors

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 Draycott in the Moors. 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

    257 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    268 km
  3. 03
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    354 km
  4. 04
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    390 km
  5. 05
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    415 km

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

Around it

Next door to Draycott in the Moors

Draycott in the Moors is 54 km from Birmingham, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Fulfordvillage and civil parish in the Stafford district of Staffordshire, England3.7 km
  • Dilhornevillage in Staffordshire, England, UK3.8 km
  • Forsbrookvillage in Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom2.5 km
  • Blythe Bridgevillage in Staffordshire Moorlands, England, UK3.4 km
  • Upper Teanvillage in Staffordshire, England2.7 km
  • Cresswellhamlet in Staffordshire, United Kingdom1 km