Moorfield Play Area

Moorfield Play Area is a playground in Cotton, Staffordshire Moorlands, England. Moorfield Play Area is situated nearby to Millenium Garden, as well as near the motorhome stopover The Cross Inn Caravan Park.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Cotton College and Winkhill railway station.

Cotton College

Ruins

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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 1 mile southwest of Moorfield Play Area.

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. Winkhill railway station is situated 2 miles northwest of Moorfield Play Area.

Church of the Holy Trinity

Church

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Church of the Holy Trinity is situated 2 miles southwest of Moorfield Play Area.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Waterhouses and Whiston.

Waterhouses

Village

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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 northeast of Moorfield Play Area.

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 Moorfield Play Area.