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Rugeley

Rugeley is a market town and civil parish in the Cannock Chase District, in Staffordshire, England.

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The place

Rugeley is a market town and civil parish in the Cannock Chase District, in Staffordshire, England. It lies on the north-eastern edge of Cannock Chase next to the River Trent; it is eight miles north of Lichfield, 10 miles (16 km) southeast of Stafford, five miles (8 km) northeast of Hednesford and 11 miles (18 km) southwest of Uttoxeter. At the 2021 Census, the population was 26,156.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Rugeley

9 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
    Blithfield Hall

    Blithfield Hall, is a privately owned Grade I listed country house in Staffordshire, England, situated some 9 miles east of Stafford, 7 miles southwest of Uttoxeter and 5 miles north of Rugeley. The Hall, with its embattled towers and walls, has been the home of the Bagot family since the late 14th century.

    5.9 km · Grade I listed building in Blithfield, East Staffordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Beaudesert

    Beaudesert was an estate and stately home on the southern edge of Cannock Chase in Staffordshire. It was one of the family seats of the Paget family, the Marquesses of Anglesey.

    4.8 km · English country house in Longdon, Lichfield, Staffordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Church of St Nicholas, Mavesyn Ridware

    The Church of St Nicholas is a Grade I listed parish church in the village of Mavesyn Ridware, Staffordshire, England. The church is situated at the eastern end of the village approximately 370 m north of the River Trent and just to the north of the Gatehouse of the former ancient Manor House.

    4.1 km · church in Mavesyn Ridware, Staffordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Armitage Park

    Armitage Park is a 19th-century Grade II listed country house at Armitage near Rugeley, Staffordshire.

    3 km · country house in Staffordshire, England · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Rugeley Town Hall

    Rugeley Town Hall was a municipal building in the Market Square in Rugeley, Staffordshire, England. The building, which was the headquarters of Rugeley Urban District Council, was demolished in 1978.

    200 m · municipal Building in England · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Church of St Augustine of Canterbury

    St Augustine's Church is the parish church of Rugeley in Cannock Chase District, Staffordshire, England. Located north of the town centre, it was consecrated in 1823 as a replacement for the medieval St Augustine's church, now partially ruined, and was subsequently extended.

    600 m · church in Rugeley, Staffordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    St Joseph and St Etheldreda, Rugeley

    The Church of St Joseph and St Etheldreda is the Roman Catholic parish church of Rugeley, in Staffordshire, England. Built in 1849–50 in Victorian Gothic style, it is a Grade II listed building.

    400 m · church building in Rugeley, Cannock Chase, Staffordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    High Bridge

    High Bridge spans the River Trent between Mavesyn Ridware and Handsacre in Staffordshire, England.

    5.1 km · bridge in Staffordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Blithfield Reservoir

    Blithfield Reservoir is a large raw water reservoir in Staffordshire, England, owned by South Staffordshire Water. The reservoir was authorised by the South Staffordshire Waterworks Act 1939 (2 & 3 Geo.

    5.6 km · reservoir in the United Kingdom · 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.

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Getting to Rugeley

Airports
Birmingham (BHX), 36 km · East Midlands (EMA), 42 km · Manchester (MAN), 69 km
Stations
Rugeley Town railway station, 700 m · Rugeley Trent Valley railway station, 1.3 km · Colwich railway station, 4.5 km
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Rugeley
    57 km · quickest by road, 1h 33m · £7–9
  • Manchester, Greater Manchester → Rugeley
    83 km · quickest by road, 2h 13m · £10–13
  • Liverpool → Rugeley
    100 km · quickest by road, 2h 24m · £12–15
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Rugeley

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 Rugeley. 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

    235 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    257 km
  3. 03
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    376 km
  4. 04
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    412 km
  5. 05
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    437 km

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Around it

Next door to Rugeley

Rugeley is 31 km from Birmingham, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Cannock Chasenon-metropolitan district in Staffordshire, England, UK3.9 km
  • Coltonvillage and civil parish in Lichfield District, Staffordshire, England2.4 km
  • Colwichvillage and civil parish in Staffordshire, UK4.2 km
  • Mavesyn Ridwarevillage and civil parish in Staffordshire, United Kingdom4 km
  • Longdonvillage and civil parish in Staffordshire, UK5.3 km
  • Cannock Woodvillage in Staffordshire, England, UK5.8 km