Local Area

Within walking distance

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• The Cock Inn – traditional country pub serving homemade food

• Loynton Moss Nature Reserve (Staffordshire Wildlife Trust)

• Shropshire Union Canal and Norbury Wharf (pub, tea rooms, canal boats)

• Public footpaths directly opposite the site

 

10 minute drive

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• Market town of Eccleshall – numerous independent shops, Perry’s Field To Fork cookery school, Johnson Hall Nurseries, Fletchers' Garden Centre, Gentleshaw wildlife rescue.

• Town of Newport – independent shops, indoor market, Harper Adams University, cafes and pubs, The Milk Stop- fresh cow and buffalo milk

• Old Newport to Stafford railway line public foot/cycle/bridlepath

• Aqualate Mere Nature Reserve

• Izaak Walton’s Cottage

• Loynton Fisheries

 

20 – 30 minute drive

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• Market town of Stone – independent shops, monthly Farmers’ Market, canal, leisure centre

• County town of Stafford, Stafford Castle and visitor centre, the Ancient High House and Staffordshire County Showground

• Cannock Chase AONB

• Historic houses and grounds – Shugborough Estate, Weston Park, Boscobel House

• Gardens – Dorothy Clive Gardens, David Austin Roses, Bridgemere Garden World,

• Trentham Gardens/Monkey Forest and shopping village

• RAF Cosford

• Uttoxeter Racecourse

• Ironbridge and Coalbrookdale - home of the industrial revolution

• The Potteries - Wedgwood, Emma Bridgewater, Gladstone Pottery Museum