Colton
Colton is a village and civil parish in Lichfield District, Staffordshire, England. It is situated just outside the town of Rugeley off the B5013 road which heads towards Uttoxeter to the north.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Clive Woolliscroft, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Village with 709 residents
- Description: village and civil parish in Lichfield District, Staffordshire, England
- Also known as: “Colton, Staffordshire”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Colton House and Rugeley Trent Valley railway station.
Rugeley Trent Valley railway station
Railway station
Photo: Row17, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Rugeley Trent Valley is a railway station serving both the village of Colton and the town of Rugeley, in Staffordshire, England. It is one of two stations serving the town, with the other being Rugeley Town.
St Augustine’s Church, Rugeley
Church
Photo: Geoff Pick, CC BY-SA 2.0.
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.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Rugeley and Admaston.
Rugeley
Town
Photo: Geoff Pick, CC BY-SA 2.0.
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 southeast of Stafford, five miles northeast of Hednesford and 11 miles southwest of Uttoxeter. Rugeley is situated 1½ miles south of Colton.
Admaston
Village
Photo: Geoff Pick, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Admaston is a small hamlet in Staffordshire, England just outside the town of Rugeley near to Abbots Bromley and Blithfield Hall. The name Admaston is derived from the Anglo-Saxon personal name Ēadmund and means 'Ēadmund's town'; it was recorded in the 12th century as Edmundestone and Admerdeston, and in the 13th century as Admundestan and Edmundestone. Admaston is situated 2 miles north of Colton.
Hill Ridware
Village
Photo: Geoff Pick, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Hill Ridware is a small village in the civil parish of Mavesyn Ridware in the Lichfield District of Staffordshire, England. It is the largest settlement in the parish with a population of 857 at the 2011 Census. Hill Ridware is situated 2½ miles southeast of Colton.
Colton
- Categories: civil parish and locality
- Location: Colton, Lichfield District, Staffordshire, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
52.78253° or 52° 46′ 57″ northLongitude
-1.92419° or 1° 55′ 27″ westPopulation
709Elevation
253 feet (77 metres)Open location code
9C4WQ3MG+28OpenStreetMap ID
node 471588855OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2652523Wikidata ID
Q1824737
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Urdu—“Colton” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Colton”
- Chinese: “Colton”
- Dutch: “Colton”
- French: “Colton”
- German: “Colton”
- Irish: “Colton”
- Japanese: “コルトン”
- Ladin: “Colton”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Colton (Staffordshire)”
- Persian: “کولتون، استافوردشر”
- Polish: “Colton”
- Spanish: “Colton”
- Swedish: “Colton, Staffordshire”
- Swedish: “Colton”
- Turkish: “Colton, Staffordshire”
- Urdu: “کولٹن، سٹیفورڈشائر”
- “Colton”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Colton Village Hall and The St. Mary’s CofE Primary School.
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Colton”. Photo: Clive Woolliscroft, CC BY-SA 2.0.