Hollington, Staffordshire
Hollington is a small village in the civil parish of Checkley, in the Staffordshire Moorlands district of Staffordshire, England. There are other places named Hollington nearby, including Hollington in Derbyshire.
The village has a church, a village hall and two pubs, The Star and The Raddle. The village shop closed in 1992.
Hollington sits on the edge of higher ground, with a ridge to the south and deep valleys to the north, giving it pretty views. The nearby towns are Cheadle to the northwest and Uttoxeter to the southeast. The hamlet of Great Gate lies about a mile to the northeast. The village is close to Croxden Abbey. An ancient Roman road runs through Hollington, coming from Rocester and the Roman town Derventio (Derby) to the east and continuing northwest through Upper Tean; the Derbyshire stretch is called Long Lane. The nearest railway station is Uttoxeter on the Crewe–Derby line, and the nearest airport is East Midlands Airport.
Two quarries in Hollington, known as Ground Hollow, produce sandstone. One type is pink-red with white flecks and is called Hollington stone; the other is white. Hollington stone has been used in churches, civic buildings and stately homes, including restorations of Lichfield, Worcester and Hereford Cathedrals, and Covent Garden Market.
The Church of St John the Evangelist serves Hollington and Croxden in the Croxden-with-Hollington parish, within the Diocese of Lichfield. It is part of the Dove and Churnet Benefice, and shares a single priest with All Saints’ Denstone, St Giles’ Croxden, and St Michael’s Rocester. The church was designed by George Edmund Street in the Victorian Gothic Revival style, construction was completed in early 1861, and it is a Grade II listed building. Street also designed All Saints’ Denstone.
Hollington is a small, historic village with notable pink-red Hollington stone and a distinctive church.
This page was last edited on 3 February 2026, at 09:21 (CET).