County town of Staffordshire, England

Stafford

Stafford is a market town and the county town of Staffordshire, England.

Plan a trip to Stafford→From Birmingham, West Midlands

Every way there

Birmingham, West Midlands → Stafford
39 km · quickest by road, 59 min · £4–6
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Nottingham, Leicestershire → Stafford
67 km · quickest by road, 1h 44m · £8–10
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Manchester, Greater Manchester → Stafford
76 km · quickest by road, 1h 52m · £9–11
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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 Stafford, ranked by how widely it is written about, how you reach it, and the nearest places where we have researched how people move.

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What Stafford has

YScheduled flightsBirmingham, West Midlands (BHX), 46 km
YTrains and coachesTransitous carries 3 timetable feeds for this country, 2 with real-time
YFerriesferry terminal, 17 km; sailings estimated
YDriving and taxiOpenStreetMap roads; cab fare from the country band
NBike and scooter shareno share feed known
NCruisesno open itinerary source anywhere

Y routable now · F found, not yet implemented · N no source known.

52.807°, -2.117°

It is located about 15 miles (24 km) south of Stoke-on-Trent, 15 miles (24 km) north of Wolverhampton and 24 miles (39 km) north-west of Birmingham. The town had a population of 71,673 at the 2021 census, and is the main settlement within the larger Borough of Stafford, which had a population of 136,837 in 2021.

Get in

Getting to Stafford

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Stafford

See

Worth seeing

01
Stafford Castle
The remains of a 19th-century mock castle atop the extensive earthworks of a Norman castle.
02
Doxey Marshes
Nature reserve.
03
Shugborough Estate
Daily: Apr-Oct 9AM-6PM, Nov-Mar 10AM-4PM.

Text adapted from Wikipedia and Wikivoyage, CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Wikimedia Commons (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.