Whiston
Whiston is a village in the Staffordshire Moorlands district of Staffordshire, England. Population details as taken at the 2011 census can be found under Kingsley. It is located within the Churnet Valley on the A52 road east of the village of Froghall.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Village
- Description: village in Staffordshire, England, UK
- Also known as: “Whiston, Staffordshire Moorlands”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Saint Mildred’s and Cotton College.
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. Cotton College is situated 1½ miles east of Whiston.
Church of St Werburgh
Church
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Church of St Werburgh is situated 1½ miles west of Whiston.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Froghall and Kingsley.
Froghall
Village
Froghall is a village situated approximately ten miles to the east of Stoke-on-Trent and two miles north of Cheadle in Staffordshire, England. Population details as taken at the 2011 Census can be found under Kingsley.
Kingsley
Village
Kingsley is a small village in the Staffordshire Moorlands near to Cheadle, and situated on the A52 from Stoke on Trent to Ashbourne. The civil parish population taken at the 2011 census was 2,204. Kingsley is situated 2 miles west of Whiston.
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 2 miles northwest of Whiston.
Whiston
- Category: locality
- Location: Kingsley, Staffordshire Moorlands, Staffordshire, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
53.02207° or 53° 1′ 19″ northLongitude
-1.94362° or 1° 56′ 37″ westElevation
705 feet (215 metres)Open location code
9C5W23C4+RHOpenStreetMap ID
node 304977507OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Irish—“Whiston” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Whiston, Staffordshire Moorlands”
- Irish: “Whiston”
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