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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 310 residents
- Description: village and civil parish in Staffordshire Moorlands, Staffordshire, England
- Also known as: “Cotton, Staffordshire”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Cotton College and Church of St John Baptist.
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.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Whiston and Alton.
Whiston
Village
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. Whiston is situated 2 miles west of Cotton.
Alton
Village
Photo: Paul Buckingham, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Alton is a village in Staffordshire, England. It is noted for the theme park Alton Towers, built around the site of Alton Mansion, which was owned by the Earls of Shrewsbury, and designed by Augustus Pugin. Alton is situated 2½ miles south of Cotton.
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. Froghall is situated 2½ miles west of Cotton.
Cotton
- Categories: civil parish and locality
- Location: Oakamoor, Staffordshire Moorlands, Staffordshire, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
53.01257° or 53° 0′ 45″ northLongitude
-1.90233° or 1° 54′ 8″ westPopulation
310Elevation
787 feet (240 metres)Open location code
9C5W237X+23OpenStreetMap ID
node 29869677OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
12262826Wikidata ID
Q5790239
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Turkish—“Cotton” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Cotton (parokya sa Hiniusang Gingharian, Staffordshire)”
- Cebuano: “Cotton”
- French: “Cotton”
- Irish: “Cotton”
- Ladin: “Cotton”
- Polish: “Cotton”
- Spanish: “Cotton (Staffordshire)”
- Spanish: “Cotton”
- Swedish: “Cotton, Staffordshire”
- Turkish: “Cotton, Staffordshire”
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Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Moneystone and Upper Cotton.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include St Wilfrid’s Catholic Church and Bath Wood.
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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 “Cotton”. Photo: Roger W Haworth, CC BY-SA 2.0.