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Marchington

Marchington is a small village in East Staffordshire, England.

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The place

Marchington is a small village in East Staffordshire, England. It lies between the towns of Burton upon Trent and Uttoxeter. Marchington has a small community-run shop, a first school, two churches and two pubs. The population of the village was 1,127 at the 2001 census, increasing to 2,017 at the 2011 census.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Marchington

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
    Sudbury Hall

    Sudbury Hall is a country house in Sudbury, Derbyshire, England. One of the country's finest Restoration mansions, it has Grade I listed building status, and the garden is Grade II listed in Historic England's Register of Parks and Gardens.

    2.8 km · country house in Derbyshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    St Cuthbert's Church, Doveridge

    St Cuthbert's Church, Doveridge is a Grade I listed parish church in the Church of England in Doveridge, Derbyshire.

    3.8 km · church in Doveridge, Derbyshire Dales, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    St John's Church, Marchington Woodlands

    St. John's Church, Marchington Woodlands is a parish church in Marchington Woodlands, Staffordshire, United Kingdom.

    2.7 km · parish church in Marchington Woodlands, Staffordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    St Peter's Church, Marchington

    St Peter's Church is a Church of England church in Marchington, Staffordshire. It is the only church in the parish of St.

    500 m · church in Marchington, East 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 Marchington

Airports
East Midlands (EMA), 32 km · Birmingham (BHX), 47 km · Manchester (MAN), 62 km
Stations
Marchington railway station, 500 m
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Marchington
    44 km · quickest by road, 1h 22m · £6–8
  • Manchester, Greater Manchester → Marchington
    73 km · quickest by road, 2h 11m · £10–13
  • Liverpool → Marchington
    98 km · quickest by road, 2h 22m · £11–15
  • From anywhere
    The planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Marchington

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 Marchington. 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

    246 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    272 km
  3. 03
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    370 km
  4. 04
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    406 km
  5. 05
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    432 km

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

Around it

Next door to Marchington

Marchington is 44 km from Birmingham, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Sudburyvillage and civil parish in Derbyshire Dales district, Derbyshire, England3 km
  • Doveridgevillage and civil parish in Derbyshire Dales district, Derbyshire, England3.6 km
  • Draycott in the Clayvillage in Staffordshire, England, UK3.2 km
  • Marchington Woodlandsvillage in Staffordshire, England, UK2.8 km
  • Astonhamlet in Derbyshire Dales district, Derbyshire, England, UK3.9 km
  • Oaks Greenvillage in Derbyshire, England, UK2.8 km