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Ranton, Staffordshire

Ranton is a hamlet and civil parish in Staffordshire, England, situated 3.5 miles (5.6 km) west of Stafford, 2.5 miles (4.0 km) east of Woodseaves and 2 miles (3.2 km) northeast of Gnosall.

Ranton, Staffordshire
Ranton, Staffordshire · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Ranton is a hamlet and civil parish in Staffordshire, England, situated 3.5 miles (5.6 km) west of Stafford, 2.5 miles (4.0 km) east of Woodseaves and 2 miles (3.2 km) northeast of Gnosall. The population taken at the 2011 census was 382.

As of 2013, both public houses that once operated in Ranton were bought and subsequently removed from operation. Due to this, Ranton is now listed as a hamlet.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Ranton, Staffordshire

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
    Seighford Hall

    Seighford Hall is a house that lies slightly to north-west of the core of Seighford, England. It appears to have later- 16th to early-17th origins but the radical later changes made to it – particularly in the 19th century – make an accurate assessment difficult.

    1.6 km · house in Seighford, Stafford, Staffordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Abbey House

    Abbey House is an early 19th-century ruined stately home in Ranton, Staffordshire, England.

    2.8 km · country house in Ellenhall, Staffordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia

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Getting to Ranton, Staffordshire

Airports
Birmingham (BHX), 51 km · East Midlands (EMA), 59 km · Manchester (MAN), 59 km
Stations
Seighford Airfield, 900 m
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Ranton, Staffordshire
    43 km · quickest by road, 1h 8m · £5–7
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Ranton, Staffordshire
    73 km · quickest by road, 1h 58m · £8–11
  • Manchester, Greater Manchester → Ranton, Staffordshire
    74 km · quickest by road, 1h 59m · £9–12
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Ranton, Staffordshire

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

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

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    245 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    249 km
  3. 03
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    361 km
  4. 04
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    397 km
  5. 05
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    422 km

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Around it

Next door to Ranton, Staffordshire

Ranton, Staffordshire is 42 km from Birmingham, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Chebseyvillage in Staffordshire, England, UK3.9 km
  • Seighfordvillage and civil parish in Staffordshire, UK1.1 km
  • Ellenhallvillage in Staffordshire, England, UK2.9 km
  • Haughtonvillage and civil parish in Staffordshire, England, UK3.9 km
  • Creswellvillage and civil parish in Staffordshire, UK3.6 km
  • Doxeyvillage in Staffordshire, England, UK3.8 km