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# Longsdon

Longsdon is a village and civil parish in the Staffordshire Moorlands district of Staffordshire, England, about 1.5 miles (2.4 km) southwest of Leek, on the A53 road.

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## Every way there

- Nottingham, Leicestershire → Longsdon 63 km · quickest by road, 1h 24m · £8–11 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/nottingham-leicestershire-to-longsdon) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Nottingham%2C+Leicestershire&to=Longsdon)
- Liverpool → Longsdon 71 km · quickest by road, 1h 29m · £9–12 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/liverpool-to-longsdon) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Liverpool&to=Longsdon)
- Birmingham, West Midlands → Longsdon 69 km · quickest by road, 1h 21m · £8–10 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/birmingham-west-midlands-to-longsdon) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Birmingham%2C+West+Midlands&to=Longsdon)

Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

The field note

What is in and around Longsdon, ranked by how widely it is written about, how you reach it, and the nearest places where we have researched how people move.

[Read the note on Longsdon](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/longsdon)

What Longsdon has

- Y Scheduled flights Manchester, Greater Manchester (MAN), 32 km
- N Trains and coaches no timetable feed known for this country
- Y Ferries ferry terminal, 17 km; sailings estimated
- Y Driving and taxi OpenStreetMap roads; cab fare from the country band
- N Bike and scooter share no share feed known
- N Cruises no open itinerary source anywhere

Y routable now · F found, not yet implemented · N no source known. Nearest place with more: Stoke-on-Trent, 13 km.

53.089°, -2.061°

How locals move

## Getting around Longsdon the local way

- Get in The city is on the National Cycle Route No.5, which runs through the city on off-road paths.
- Get around The city has over 100 miles (160 km) of excellent off-road bicycle paths, old railway and mineral lines, and canal towpaths.

From [Wikivoyage: Stoke-on-Trent](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Stoke-on-Trent), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us. Last edited 2026-09.

Text adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longsdon), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Wikimedia Commons (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.


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