Gratwich
Gratwich is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Kingstone, in the East Staffordshire district, in the county of Staffordshire, England.
Gratwich is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Kingstone, in the East Staffordshire district, in the county of Staffordshire, England. It is miles southwest of Uttoxeter in the valley of the River Blythe. In 1931 the parish had a population of 58.
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Worth seeing in and around Gratwich
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.
- 01Chartley Castle
Chartley Castle lies in ruins to the north of the village of Stowe-by-Chartley in Staffordshire, between Stafford and Uttoxeter. Mary, Queen of Scots, was imprisoned on the estate in 1585.
3.6 km · castle in the UK · Wikipedia - 02Loxley Hall
Loxley Hall is an early-19th-century country house near Uttoxeter, Staffordshire, now occupied by a Staffordshire County Council special school for boys with challenging behaviour difficulties. It is a Grade II* listed building.
3.3 km · country house in Staffordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Gratwich
- Airports
- East Midlands (EMA), 43 km · Birmingham (BHX), 50 km · Manchester (MAN), 56 km
- Nottingham, Leicestershire → Gratwich55 km · quickest by road, 1h 24m · £6–8
- Birmingham, West Midlands → Gratwich45 km · quickest by road, 1h 26m · £6–8
- Manchester, Greater Manchester → Gratwich69 km · quickest by road, 2h 13m · £10–13
- 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 Gratwich
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 Gratwich. 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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Next door to Gratwich
Gratwich is 45 km from Birmingham, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.