Downs Banks

#1051 among destinations in the United Kingdom

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Downs Bank, also known as Barlaston Downs, is an area of open countryside, located two miles north of the town of Stone in Staffordshire, and four miles south of the city of Stoke-on-Trent. It is owned and managed by the National Trust. ()

Coordinates: 52°55'47"N, 2°8'55"W

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Downs Banks – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Bet365 Stadium, Trentham Estate, Gladstone Pottery Museum, Foxfield Railway.

4.2 miN
Arenas and stadiums, Sport complex, Sport
Bet365 Stadium, Stoke-on-Trent
108 min walk • The Bet365 Stadium is an all-seater football stadium in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England and the home of EFL Championship club Stoke City.
3 miNW
Park
Trentham Estate, Stoke-on-Trent
78 min walk • The Trentham Estate, in the village of Trentham, is a visitor attraction located on the southern fringe of the city of Stoke-on-Trent in Staffordshire, United Kingdom.
4 miN
Museum, Specialty museum, History museum
Gladstone Pottery Museum, Stoke-on-Trent
103 min walk • The Gladstone Pottery Museum is a working museum of a medium-sized coal-fired pottery, typical of those once common in the North Staffordshire area of England from the time of the industrial revolution in the 18th century to the mid 20th century.
4.7 miNE
Museum, Scenic railroads, Tours
Foxfield Railway, Stoke-on-Trent
120 min walk • The Foxfield Railway is a preserved standard gauge line located south east of Stoke-on-Trent. The line was built in 1893 to serve the colliery at Dilhorne on the Cheadle Coalfield. It joined the North Staffordshire Railway line near Blythe Bridge.
4.8 miNE
Forts and castles
Caverswall Castle
122 min walk • Caverswall Castle is a privately owned early-17th-century English mansion built in a castellar style upon the foundations and within the walls of a 13th-century castle, in Caverswall, Staffordshire. It is a Grade I listed building.
4.8 miSW
Museum
Mill Meece Pumping Station, Eccleshall
122 min walk • Mill Meece Pumping Station is a pumping station, located in the village of Millmeece in Staffordshire, England. Its function, powered by steam engines, was to pump water from boreholes to a reservoir in Hanchurch, from which it flows by gravity to supply the Potteries area.
2 miNW
52°57'19"N • 2°10'15"W
World of Wedgwood, Stoke-on-Trent
51 min walk • Specialty museum, Art museum, History museum
3.3 miNW
Museum, Memorial
Trentham Mausoleum, Stoke-on-Trent
84 min walk • The Trentham Mausoleum is a Grade 1 listed mausoleum in Trentham, Stoke-on-Trent, built as the final resting place of the Dukes of Sutherland.
5.1 miS
Museum, History museum
Izaak Walton's Cottage
132 min walk • The Izaak Walton Cottage is a seventeenth-century timber framed building in Shallowford, Chebsey, Staffordshire, England. It belonged to the writer Izaak Walton, best known for The Compleat Angler.
1.2 miNW
Village, Area
Barlaston, Stoke-on-Trent
32 min walk • Barlaston is a village and civil parish in the borough of Stafford in the county of Staffordshire, England. It is roughly halfway between the city of Stoke-on-Trent and the small town of Stone.
4 miN
Town
Longton, Stoke-on-Trent
102 min walk • Longton is one of the six towns which amalgamated to form the county borough of Stoke-on-Trent in 1910, along with Hanley, Tunstall, Fenton, Burslem and Stoke-upon-Trent.