(Hamlet near Warslow)
Traditional county: Staffordshire · District / Borough: Staffordshire Moorlands · Region: West Midlands
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| Place | Townhead |
| Traditional County | Staffordshire |
| District / Borough | Staffordshire Moorlands |
| Region | West Midlands |
| Country | England, United Kingdom |
| Latitude | 53.123177 |
| Longitude | -1.907433 |
| Place Type | Hamlet |
Townhead holds a quiet prominence upon the high, wind-brushed ridges of the Staffordshire Moorlands. It lies 4.9 miles east-north-east of Leek (from Leek: bearing 76°T, OS grid SK 062 584), and is situated west of Warslow village. The horizon here is defined by the sharp, singular lift of Revidge, which watches over the limestone pastures with a stoic, geological indifference. As a constituent of the Peak District National Park, Townhead exists where the earth rises to meet a wider, more restless sky. Ancient traces of human occupation linger in the landscape, evidenced by the Bowl Barrow 450M South Of Hillside, a grass-covered hump that marks the passage of lives long since dissolved into the soil. The light in this elevated corner of England has a clarifying quality, sharpening the edges of drystone walls until they look like veins of quartz running through the hills. Farmers have worked these thin, gritstone-strewn fields for generations, their labour leaving a faint, recurring pattern upon the slopes. Townhead remains a place of sparse, honest beauty, where the silence is broken only by the sudden, percussive call of a curlew traversing the upland air.
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Explore Townhead, Staffordshire, with an embedded street and satellite map - switch between views using the small square in the bottom left-hand corner of the map. Coordinates: 53.123177, -1.907433. Live weather conditions and 7-day forecasts are provided through Open-Meteo, while real-time local and world news feeds help keep the page current. Wikipedia and editorial summaries provide additional local information and context.
Location data is sourced from OS Open Names © Crown copyright and database rights 2024, Ordnance Survey, Open Government Licence v3.0, and verified by coordinates.
| Page built | September 2026 |
| Location data | OS Open Names © Crown copyright and database rights 2024. Ordnance Survey. Open Government Licence v3.0. |
| County data | Traditional county boundaries. Modern unitary authority: OS Open Names / ONS Geography. |
| Coordinates | WGS84 decimal degrees derived from OS National Grid (OSGB36) |
| Wikipedia validation | Article content matched by Wikipedia category membership (e.g. “Villages in Derbyshire”) and name verification against OS Open Names data. |