Other sights in StaffordshireStaffordshire, England

Spectacular gritstone escarpment on the Dark Peak edge, its wind-carved crags climbing to 505m with views to Wales and a hidden pool below.

A sixty-foot symmetrical cave mouth punched through a limestone crag above the Manifold valley — occupied since the Stone Age, photographed since the Victorians.

Dragon's-back reef limestone ridge in the upper Dove valley, a sharp-crested fossil-reef hill with dramatic sunrise views.

Celebrated limestone ravine on the River Dove, its famous stepping stones crossing below the cone of Thorpe Cloud.

Sham ruined tower folly perched on a gritstone summit on the Cheshire border, a National Trust landmark with vast Cheshire Plain views.

Brindley's mile-and-a-half canal tunnel under Harecastle Hill, its water stained orange with ironstone; boats pass through Telford's later parallel bore.

Winding limestone valley where the River Manifold vanishes underground in summer, followed by a traffic-free trail on the old light railway.

Steep gritstone tor at the southern end of the Roaches, a bold outcrop with sweeping views over Tittesworth Reservoir.

Deep mossy chasm hidden in woodland above the Dane, a fairytale cleft of dripping rock linked to the Green Knight and Lollard worship.

The only working Victorian pottery left in Stoke, a canal-side Grade II* factory still making Burleigh ware, with tours and a café.

Sixty acres of Staffordshire woodland roamed freely by 140 Barbary macaques, walked on foot along a forest path on the Trentham Estate.

Heritage steam line running through the wooded Churnet Valley from Cheddleton, nicknamed 'Staffordshire's Little Switzerland'.

Working Hanley pottery famous for its spotted and printed ware, offering factory tours, decorate-your-own sessions and a garden café.

Britain's last steam-powered potters' mill at the junction of two canals, its 1857 bone-and-flint grinding engine still fired on steaming days.

The last complete Victorian pottery factory in Britain, its cobbled yard ringed by bottle kilns telling the story of the Potteries in Longton.

Solemn memorial on Cannock Chase to the Polish officers murdered at Katyn, set in light woodland near the German and Commonwealth war cemeteries.

Cannock Chase hub with a café and a preserved Great War hut, the starting point for heathland walks and family trails across the Chase.

Jagged gritstone ridge beside the Leek–Buxton road, its tilted pinnacles including the famous winking 'Winking Man' rock.

Wedgwood's visitor estate at Barlaston with a factory tour, decorating studio, museum of the firm's ceramics and a tearoom.