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Eccleshall

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More small market town than village, Eccleshall lines up Georgian frontages and old coaching inns along its main street. Just outside stands Eccleshall Castle, for centuries a seat of the Bishops of Lichfield and now a private house. Norton Bridge station is about 4km to the east.

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Photo of the Shropshire Union Canal, a 67-mile canal running from Wolverhampton to Ellesmere Port, England.

Shropshire Union Canal

Canal

Telford's dead-straight last great canal, running embankment-and-cutting from the Black Country to the Mersey at Ellesmere Port.

6 km SW · Cheshire, Staffordshire & Shropshire

Photo of the Trent & Mersey Canal, a 93-mile canal running from Preston Brook to Shardlow, England.

Trent & Mersey Canal

Canal

Brindley's Grand Trunk of 1777 — Potteries bottle kilns, the Anderton Boat Lift and the long darkness of Harecastle Tunnel.

8.3 km NE · Staffordshire, Cheshire & Derbyshire

Photo of Trentham Monkey Forest, a visitor attraction near Barlaston, Staffordshire, central England.Highlight

Trentham Monkey Forest

Attraction near Barlaston

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

10.8 km N

Photo of Trentham Gardens, a Grade II* registered house & garden near Barlaston, Staffordshire, central England.Highlight

Trentham Gardens

House & garden near Barlaston

Italian gardens and lake by a lost mansion.

12 km N

Photo of World of Wedgwood, a visitor attraction near Barlaston, Staffordshire, central England.Highlight

World of Wedgwood

Attraction near Barlaston

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

12.2 km NE

Photo of the Staffordshire & Worcestershire Canal, a 46-mile canal running from Great Haywood Junction to Stourport-on-Severn, central England.

Staffordshire & Worcestershire Canal

Canal

Brindley's cross-country link of 1772 from the Trent & Mersey to the Severn, ending at the purpose-built port of Stourport.

12.8 km SE · Staffordshire, Worcestershire & West Midlands