Wardlow Quarry JCB Test Facility

Wardlow Quarry JCB Test Facility is a quarry in Farley, Staffordshire Moorlands, England. Wardlow Quarry JCB Test Facility is situated nearby to Reardon Quarry, as well as near the quarry Kevin North (JCB).

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Alton Towers and Cotton College.

Alton Towers

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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.

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 1¼ miles west of Wardlow Quarry JCB Test Facility.

Church of St John Baptist

Church

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Church of St John Baptist is situated 1¼ miles southwest of Wardlow Quarry JCB Test Facility.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Waterhouses and Calton.

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 2 miles north of Wardlow Quarry JCB Test Facility.

Calton

Village

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Calton is a village and a former parochial chapelry and civil parish, now in the parish of Waterhouses, in the Staffordshire Moorlands district of Staffordshire, England. Calton is situated 2 miles northeast of Wardlow Quarry JCB Test Facility.