Cotton

Cotton is a village and civil parish in Staffordshire, England. It is about 5 miles north-east of Cheadle. Cotton Hall, originally built in the 17th century, was the home of Cotton College from 1863 until its closure in 1987.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Cotton College and Peak Wildlife Park.

Cotton College

Ruins

Photo: Roger W Haworth, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Cotton College was a Roman Catholic boarding school in Cotton, Staffordshire, United Kingdom. It was also known as Saint Wilfrid's College. The school buildings were centred on Cotton Hall, a country house used by religious communities from the 1840s until the school moved there in 1873.

Peak Wildlife Park

Zoo

Photo: Mike Peel, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Peak Wildlife Park is a zoo in central England. The nearest towns are Leek, Ashbourne and Stoke-on-Trent. The zoo was originally known as Blackbrook Zoological Park, but entered administration in 2014 and closed. Peak Wildlife Park is situated 2 miles north of Cotton.

Winkhill railway station

Winkhill railway station was a railway station that served the hamlet of Winkhill, Staffordshire. It was opened by the North Staffordshire Railway in 1910 and closed to passenger use in 1935, but remained open to freight traffic until 1964.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Waterhouses and Ipstones.

Waterhouses

Village

Photo: Maxwell S W Birchenough, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Waterhouses is a village in the south of the Staffordshire Peak District in England. It is around 8 miles from Leek and Ashbourne, being nearly the halfway point between the two towns on the A523 road, which roughly follows the southern boundary of the Peak District National Park.

Ipstones

Village

Photo: Alan Murray-Rust, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Ipstones is a village and civil parish in the north of the English county of Staffordshire. Ipstones is part of the Staffordshire Moorlands district; within the boundaries of the civil parish are the hamlets Foxt, Consall Forge and Bottomhouse. Ipstones is situated 3 miles west of Cotton.

Calton

Village

Photo: Clive Woolliscroft, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Calton is a village and a former parochial chapelry and civil parish, now in the parish of Waterhouses, in the Staffordshire Moorlands district of Staffordshire, England. Calton is situated 3 miles northeast of Cotton.

Cotton

Type: Locality
Location: Staffordshire Moorlands, Staffordshire, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

53.0313° or 53° 1′ 53″ north

Longitude

-1.9068° or 1° 54′ 25″ west

Elevation

1,125 feet (343 metres)

Open location code

9C5W23JV+G7

GeoNames ID

7291035

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