Alton
in Staffordshire of England, United Kingdom
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East Midlands Airport (25 mi) - Manchester Woodford Airport (28 mi)
- Manchester Airport (31 mi)
- Nottingham Airport (34 mi)
- Birmingham International Airport (36 mi)
- Coventry Airport (45 mi)
- Robin Hood Doncaster Sheffield Airport (51 mi)
- Leeds Bradford Airport (63 mi)
- Pontcysyllte Aqueduct and Canal (Unesco heritage, 43 mi)
- Liverpool – Maritime Mercantile City (Unesco heritage, 47 mi)
- Derwent Valley Mills (Unesco heritage, 57 mi)
- Saltaire (Unesco heritage, 92 mi)
- Blaenavon Industrial Landscape (Unesco heritage, 93 mi)
- Blenheim Palace (Unesco heritage, 94 mi)
- Studley Royal Park including the Ruins of Fountains Abbey (Unesco heritage, 99 mi)
- City of Bath (Unesco heritage, 110 mi)
- Branston Golf And Country Club (Golf course, 16 mi)
- Calderfields Golf Club (Golf course, 26 mi)
- The Belfry (Golf course, 29 mi)
- Bramall Park Golf Club (Golf course, 31 mi)
- Hallamshire Golf Club (Golf course, 32 mi)
- Alton Towers (amusement park, (2 mi)
- Decimal Coordinates (Latitude, Longitude):
- 52.967 and -1.883 (Lat./Lng.)
- Coordinates by Time:
- N 52° 58' 0" and W -1° 52' 59"
- Currency and Currency Code:
- Pound - GBP
- Spoken languages:
- English, Welsh, Scottish Gaelic
- Local electricity:
- 230 V - 50 Hz (plugs: G)
- Mobile phone / cellular frequencies (MHz):
- 900 MHz, 1800 MHz, 3G, 4G
- Local Time: 09:42 PM (Sunday)
- Timezone: Europe/London
- UTC/GMT offset: 0 hours
- Sunrise and Sunset:
- 5:24 am and 8:43 pm
- Antipode Coordinates:
- -45.817 and 170.717 (Lat./Lng.)
- Closest place to antipode coordinates:
Otakou - References
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- This place on Geonames.org
Safety Score: 3,0 of 5.0 based on data from 9 authorites. Meaning we advice caution when travelling to United Kingdom.
Travel warnings are updated daily. Source: Travel Warning United Kingdom. Last Update: 2024-05-05 08:24:42
Delve into Alton
Alton in Staffordshire (England) is a city located in United Kingdom about 125 mi (or 202 km) north-west of London, the country's capital town.
Current time in Alton is now 09:42 PM (Sunday). The local timezone is named Europe / London with an UTC offset of one hour. We know of 8 airports closer to Alton, of which 5 are larger airports. The closest airport in United Kingdom is East Midlands Airport in a distance of 25 mi (or 40 km), East. Besides the airports, there are other travel options available (check left side).
There are several Unesco world heritage sites nearby. The closest heritage site in United Kingdom is Pontcysyllte Aqueduct and Canal in a distance of 43 mi (or 69 km), West. Also, if you like playing golf, there are some options within driving distance. We saw 1 points of interest near this location. In need of a room? We compiled a list of available hotels close to the map centre further down the page.
Since you are here already, you might want to pay a visit to some of the following locations: Rodsley, Shirley, Bradley, Yeldersley and Stafford. To further explore this place, just scroll down and browse the available info.
Local weather forecast
Todays Local Weather Conditions & Forecast: 16°C / 61 °F
| Morning Temperature | 9°C / 48 °F |
| Evening Temperature | 14°C / 57 °F |
| Night Temperature | 9°C / 48 °F |
| Chance of rainfall | 2% |
| Air Humidity | 70% |
| Air Pressure | 1007 hPa |
| Wind Speed | Light breeze with 5 km/h (3 mph) from North |
| Cloud Conditions | Overcast clouds, covering 93% of sky |
| General Conditions | Light rain |
Monday, 6th of May 2024
15°C (59 °F)
9°C (47 °F)
Moderate rain, gentle breeze, overcast clouds.
Tuesday, 7th of May 2024
14°C (57 °F)
9°C (49 °F)
Overcast clouds, gentle breeze.
Wednesday, 8th of May 2024
15°C (59 °F)
11°C (52 °F)
Light rain, light breeze, overcast clouds.
Hotels and Places to Stay
The Dog and Partridge Country Inn
Bank House Hotel
Uttoxeter
Videos from this area
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Froghall to Oakamoor, Alton and Denstone
A photographic journey, taken along the line and trackbed from Kingsley & Froghall railway station to Denstone; calling at Oakamoor and Alton along the way.
St Peters Church, Alton, Staffordshire - 1
A short video clip filmed on a visit to St Peters Church in the village of Alton in Staffordshire. http://www.crsbi.ac.uk/ed/st/alton/index.htm.
Air - Roller Coaster - On Ride - Alton Towers - (HD)
"J'aime" et "Favoris" et lire la description SVP! ▽▽▽▽▽▽▽▽ (Cela prend 2 secondes et aide beaucoup la chaine) www.ExtremCoaster.fr Air sont des montagnes russes en métal...
Easter Holiday Special!
Join Mandy and Hannah in 2 theme parks and Yanny in Manchester!
Alton Towers Resort Trip May 2018 - Girls Weekend Away
A trip with my girlfriends to Alton Towers Resort. We ate at the Rollercoaster Restaurant and stayed at the Enchanted Woodlands.
LIT TRIP TO ALTON TOWERS WITH GEORGE BLUNT
Go check out his channel.
Alton towers 8/9/18
Trip to are home theme park Alton towers on 8/9/18 with off ride P.O.V'S and bonus pictures Like us on are Facebook page ...
Alton Towers 2018 | Short Clip
Off ride footage of a few rides Alton Towers has to offer.
GOING TO ALTON TOWERS - SCAREFEST | 14th October 2017
GOING TO ALTON TOWERS - SCAREFEST | 14th October 2017 Today, we go to Alton Towers because it is scarefest at the moment, so we though we will go ...
Nemesis ¦ Front&Back Row ¦ POV ¦ Alton Towers
Heres my reaction to riding Nemesis at Alton Towers!! There's a reason why people call this the beast... its just insane!! Backseat Blackout kindly advised me to ...
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Attractions and noteworthy things
Distances are based on the centre of the city/town and sightseeing location. This list contains brief abstracts about monuments, holiday activities, national parcs, museums, organisations and more from the area as well as interesting facts about the region itself. Where available, you'll find the corresponding homepage. Otherwise the related wikipedia article.
Rita (roller coaster)
Rita is an Intamin accelerator coaster located in the Dark Forest area of Alton Towers in Staffordshire, England. It accelerates to 61.1 mph in 2.5 seconds. The ride is loosely based on drag racing. It is similar to Stealth at Thorpe Park which opened in 2006, though this partly changed with the retheming of Ug Land into the Dark Forest for 2010. It now stands as an abandoned drag racer that is used as the escape cart to escape the Dark Forest.
Nemesis (roller coaster)
Nemesis is an inverted roller coaster located at Alton Towers, England. The ride's concept and layout was devised by designer John Wardley. It was manufactured by Bolliger & Mabillard (B&M) and opened in 1994. It is located in the Forbidden Valley area of the park, adjacent to Air, a flying B&M roller coaster that opened in 2002. More than 50 million people have ridden it since opening.
Air (roller coaster)
Air or Aerial Inversion Ride is a steel flying roller coaster located in the Forbidden Valley area of Alton Towers in Staffordshire, England. The ride was the first flying roller coaster designed by the Swiss manufacturers Bolliger & Mabillard. Guests ride in a prone position and experience the feeling of flight by 'flying' close to the ground, under footpaths and gliding narrowly past objects such as trees and rocks. It is the tallest roller-coaster in Alton Towers.
Corkscrew (Alton Towers)
Corkscrew was a steel roller coaster manufactured by Vekoma of the Netherlands. The coaster was located in the Ug Land area of Alton Towers in Staffordshire, England. It was the park's oldest ride and is considered the greatest factor in promoting the new theme park to the British public. It was one of the first double-inverting coasters in Europe (the first in the UK) - so received much publicity and avid popularity in the 1980s.
Alton Towers Waterpark
Alton Towers Waterpark, also known as Cariba Creek and Splash Landings, is an indoor/outdoor waterpark themed as a tropical lagoon. It is located in the Alton Towers resort, next to the Splash Landings hotel in Staffordshire, England. It is situated inside the actual hotel.
Beast (Alton Towers)
Alton Beast (later known as New Beast) was a roller coaster at Alton Towers. It first opened in 1988 in the Talbot Street (now Cloud Cuckoo Land) section of the park with the Alton Mouse, a second-hand wild mouse coaster, and was marketed by the park as the largest coaster in the UK. It was a very popular ride, and it stayed in Talbot Street until 1992, when it was moved to Thunder Valley near the Thunder Looper (where the Air shop is now) and renamed the New Beast.
Thirteen (roller coaster)
Thirteen (officially stylised as TH13TEEN) is a steel roller coaster at Alton Towers in England. The ride was constructed by Intamin and opened on 20 March 2010. It is the world's first vertical freefall drop roller coaster - on which the track and train freefall approximately five metres in darkness. The ride replaced and is built on the former site of the Corkscrew, which resided at Alton Towers for 28 years between 1980 and 2008.
Twirling Toadstool (Alton Towers)
Twirling Toadstool is a ride at the British theme park Alton Towers. This ride is made up of many chairs hanging from the ride by long chains. When the ride begins, the chairs are lifted several metres off the ground, then they begin to rotate. Once the chairs have been lifted to a certain height, and are rotating fast enough, the chairs are banked as the ride tilts. This creates a strange up and down spinning motion, which may well be uncomfortable for people who don't like this kind of ride.
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