Butterton
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Butterton is a small village in the Staffordshire Moorlands in Staffordshire, England. It is close to the Peak District (). It overlooks the Manifold Valley and Ecton Hill, which rises 1,212 feet above sea level. Butterton lies 5 miles east of Leek and roughly 8 miles from Alton Towers theme park. The village is just west of the limestone area, and so is mainly built of local sandstone. It contains a Grade II listed church. In the centre of Butterton there is an unusual ford where the Hoo Brook runs along the village street.
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Place details
- Locality
- Staffordshire Moorlands
- Region
- England
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Population
- 0
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- Instance of
- village
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Located in
- Staffordshire Moorlands
- Population
- 248
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- St. Bartholomew, Butterton - geograph.org.uk - 943867.jpg
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- Butterton-in-the-Peak
- OS grid reference
- SK073566
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Encyclopedic overview
10 sectionsContents
- Demography
- History
- Economy
- Landmarks
- The Hillocks
- St Bartholomew's Church
- Education
- Culture and community
- See also
- References
Butterton is a small village in the Staffordshire Moorlands in Staffordshire, England. It is close to the Peak District (). It overlooks the Manifold Valley and Ecton Hill, which rises 1,212 feet above sea level. Butterton lies 5 miles east of Leek and roughly 8 miles from Alton Towers theme park. The village is just west of the limestone area, and so is mainly built of local sandstone. It contains a Grade II listed church. In the centre of Butterton there is an unusual ford where the Hoo Brook runs along the village street.
Butterton was served by a railway station which was opened by the Leek and Manifold Valley Light Railway on 27 June 1904. The line closed in 1934, and the route of the railway past the station is now designated the Manifold Way, a footpath and cycle route. Butterton is one of 17 doubly Thankful Villages that suffered no fatalities in both the Great War of 1914–1918 and in the Second World War.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Butterton” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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