Winkhill

Winkhill is a hamlet in Waterhouses, Staffordshire Moorlands, England. Winkhill is situated nearby to the hamlet Broomyshaw, as well as near the village Waterfall.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Peak Wildlife Park and Winkhill railway station.

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.

Winkhill railway station

Winkhill railway station, or Winkhill Halt, served the hamlet of Winkhill, in Staffordshire, England. 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.

Church of St James and St Bartholomew

Church

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

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Waterfall and Waterhouses.

Waterfall

Village

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

Waterfall is a village.

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. Waterhouses is situated 1½ miles southeast of Winkhill.

Grindon

Village

Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY 3.0.

Grindon is a small village in the Staffordshire Moorlands district of Staffordshire, England. Close to the Peak District. Grindon is situated 2½ miles northeast of Winkhill.

Winkhill

Type: Hamlet
Category: locality
Location: Waterhouses, Staffordshire Moorlands, Staffordshire, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

53.0597° or 53° 3′ 35″ north

Longitude

-1.91094° or 1° 54′ 39″ west

Elevation

823 feet (251 metres)

Open location code

9C5W335Q+VJ

OpenStreetMap ID

node 3023082307

OpenStreetMap feature

place=hamlet

GeoNames ID

13275217

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