Rocester
Rocester is a village and civil parish in the East Staffordshire district of Staffordshire, England.
Rocester is a village and civil parish in the East Staffordshire district of Staffordshire, England. Its name is spelt Rowcestre in the Domesday Book of 1086. It is located on the Derbyshire border.
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Worth seeing in and around Rocester
3 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.
3.2 km · 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.
3.5 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.
1.9 km · church in Denstone, Staffordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Rocester
- Airports
- East Midlands (EMA), 37 km · Manchester (MAN), 53 km · Birmingham (BHX), 56 km
- Stations
- Rocester railway station, 800 m · Denstone railway station, 1.7 km
- Manchester, Greater Manchester → Rocester65 km · quickest by road, 2h 2m · £9–12
- Birmingham, West Midlands → Rocester52 km · quickest by road, 1h 32m · £6–8
- Liverpool → Rocester91 km · quickest by road, 2h 14m · £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 Rocester
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 Rocester. 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 Rocester – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Rocester
Rocester is 46 km from Nottingham, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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- Norbury and Rostoncivil parish in Derbyshire Dales district, Derbyshire, England3.3 km
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