Farley

Farley is a hamlet in Farley, Staffordshire Moorlands, England. Farley is situated nearby to the locality CBeebies Land, as well as near Towers Street.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Alton Towers and Spinball Whizzer.

Alton Towers

Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Alton Towers, the largest theme park in the United Kingdom, is in Staffordshire, England. It is generally considered by rollercoaster enthusiasts to hold its own with any such park in the world.

Spinball Whizzer

Roller coaster

Photo: Ukdave2010, Public domain.

Spinball Whizzer is a spinning roller coaster located in The Towers area of Alton Towers in Staffordshire, England. Built by Maurer Söhne, it was previously sponsored by Sega, the company that created the Sonic the Hedgehog video game franchise, and was known as Sonic Spinball from 2010 to 2015.

The Smiler

Roller coaster

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The Smiler is a steel roller coaster located at Alton Towers in Staffordshire, England. The Infinity Coaster model from Gerstlauer set a world record for most inversions on a roller coaster when it opened in 2013, featuring 14 inversions that include dive loops, sidewinders, corkscrews, and other inverting elements.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Alton and Denstone.

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, the UK's biggest and most famous theme park built around the site of Alton Mansion, which was owned by the Earls of Shrewsbury, and designed by Augustus Pugin.

Denstone

Village

Photo: Linda Bailey, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Denstone is a village and civil parish situated between the towns of Uttoxeter in East Staffordshire and Ashbourne in Derbyshire. It is located next to the River Churnet. Denstone is situated 2½ miles southeast of Farley.

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 2½ miles northwest of Farley.

Farley

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

52.9951° or 52° 59′ 42″ north

Longitude

-1.89658° or 1° 53′ 48″ west

Elevation

627 feet (191 metres)

Open location code

9C4WX4W3+29

OpenStreetMap ID

node 305383809

OpenStreetMap feature

place=hamlet

GeoNames ID

13275689

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