Ellastone
Ellastone is a village in the East Staffordshire borough of Staffordshire, in the West Midlands of England.
Ellastone is a village in the East Staffordshire borough of Staffordshire, in the West Midlands of England. It is on the Staffordshire side of the River Dove and is directly opposite the village of Norbury in Derbyshire. It is between Uttoxeter and Ashbourne.
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Worth seeing in and around Ellastone
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.
- 01Norbury Manor
Norbury Manor is a 17th-century manor house with an adjoining 14th-century stone-built medieval hall house, Norbury Hall, known as The Old Manor, in Norbury near Ashbourne, Derbyshire. It is a Grade I listed building.
900 m · Grade I listed historic house museum in Derbyshire Dales, United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 02St Mary and St Barlock's Church, Norbury
St Mary and St Barlock's Church, Norbury is a Grade I listed parish church in the Church of England in Norbury, Derbyshire.
1.1 km · church in Norbury, Derbyshire Dales, UK · Wikipedia - 03Church of All Saints
All Saints' Church, Denstone is a Grade II* listed parish church in the Church of England in Denstone.
2.5 km · church in Denstone, Staffordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 04Church of St Peter
St Peter's Church, Snelston is a Grade II* listed parish church in the Church of England in Snelston, Derbyshire.
4 km · church in Derbyshire Dales, United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 05Alton Towers Waterpark
Alton Towers Waterpark, previously known as Cariba Creek, is a water park at Alton Towers Resort, in Staffordshire, England. It is themed to a tropical lagoon, adjoining the Splash Landings Hotel with indoor and outdoor water features.
3.2 km · Water park at Alton Towers Resort in Staffordshire, England · Wikipedia
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Getting to Ellastone
- Airports
- East Midlands (EMA), 38 km · Manchester (MAN), 51 km · Birmingham (BHX), 59 km
- Stations
- Rocester railway station, 4 km · Denstone railway station, 2.6 km
- Manchester, Greater Manchester → Ellastone61 km · quickest by road, 2h 4m · £7–10
- Birmingham, West Midlands → Ellastone57 km · quickest by road, 1h 38m · £7–9
- Liverpool → Ellastone90 km · quickest by road, 2h 20m · £11–15
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Ellastone
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 Ellastone. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- 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.
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If you know how people move in Ellastone – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Ellastone
Ellastone is 46 km from Nottingham, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Snelstonvillage and civil parish in Derbyshire Dales district, Derbyshire, England3.6 km
- Rocestervillage in Staffordshire, England, UK3.6 km
- Denstonevillage in Staffordshire, England, UK2.7 km
- Ramshornhamlet in Staffordshire, England, UK4 km
- Woottonvillage and civil parish in Staffordshire, UK2.5 km
- Norbury and Rostoncivil parish in Derbyshire Dales district, Derbyshire, England900 m