Photo of Abbots Bromley, a village in Staffordshire, central England.

Abbots Bromley© Rod Grealish / Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0

Villages & towns in StaffordshireStaffordshire, England

17 villages and towns in the Albion Guide across Staffordshire — see the full villages and towns directory, or everything to explore in Staffordshire.

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Abbots Bromley

Timber-framed village with a market cross and an ancient church, famous for the Horn Dance that has wound through its streets each September for centuries.

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Ilam

Estate village at the foot of the Peak District, its Swiss-style Gothic cottages clustered below Ilam Hall where the Manifold and Dove valleys meet.

Staffordshire

Alton

Churnet Valley village framed by Pugin's fairytale Alton Castle and Towers, with steep lanes, an old lock-up and wooded riverside walks.

Staffordshire

Brewood

Handsome canal-side village of Georgian houses around a medieval church, on the Shropshire Union, with the gothic folly of Speedwell Castle at its centre.

Staffordshire

Butterton

Chocolate-box moorlands village where a stream runs down the lane and a ford crosses beneath sandstone cottages and a needle-spired church.

Staffordshire

Oakamoor

Wooded Churnet Valley settlement on a former copper-works site, now a walkers' base with riverside paths and the old railway trail nearby.

Staffordshire

Leek

Stone-built moorland market town, the 'Queen of the Moorlands', with a cobbled square, silk-trade heritage and rich Arts and Crafts architecture.

Staffordshire

Alstonefield

Traditional Peak District village of limestone cottages set around a green, poised on the plateau between the Dove and Manifold gorges.

Staffordshire

Cheddleton

Churnet Valley village strung along the Caldon Canal, home to a working flint mill and the preserved steam line of the Churnet Valley Railway.

Staffordshire

Kinver

Sandstone village below the wooded ridge of Kinver Edge, gateway to the last inhabited rock houses cut into the cliffs of Holy Austin Rock.

Staffordshire

Longnor

Moorland village gathered around a cobbled market square on the ridge between the young Dove and Manifold, once a busy market crossroads.

Staffordshire

Tutbury

Historic village above the River Dove below the ruins of Tutbury Castle, where Mary, Queen of Scots was held, with a great Norman priory church at its heart.

Staffordshire

Alrewas

Trent-side village of timbered cottages where the river meets the Trent and Mersey Canal, close to the National Memorial Arboretum.

Staffordshire

Flash

The highest village in England at 1,519 feet, huddled on windswept gritstone moor near the meeting of three counties at Three Shires Head.

Staffordshire

Grindon

Hilltop Manifold Valley village with a needle spire visible for miles, a quiet base for the tarmacked Manifold Way below.

Staffordshire

Hollinsclough

Remote moorland hamlet beneath the dragon-back ridge of Chrome Hill, once a silk-weaving community strung along the upper Dove.

Staffordshire

Eccleshall

Small market town of Georgian frontages and old coaching inns, long the seat of the Bishops of Lichfield at nearby Eccleshall Castle.

Staffordshire