What is "atherstone"

Atherstone is a town and civil parish in the English county of Warwickshire. Located in the far north of the county, Atherstone forms part of the border with Leicestershire along the A5 national route, and is only 4.5 miles from Staffordshire. It lies midway between the larger towns of Tamworth and Nuneaton and contains the administrative offices of North Warwickshire Borough Council.

Atherstone is a market town in the English county of Warwickshire. Atherstone may also refer to:

in georgraph

• Atherstone Town F.C., Atherstone's football club
• Atherstone Rural District, a defunct local authority
• Atherstone Priory, a priory in Warwickshire, England
• Atherstone on Stour, a village, also located in Warwickshire
• Atherstone, Somerset, a town in Somerset, England
• Atherstone Nature Reserve, a 23,500 hectare reserve situated close to Dwaalboom, in the Limpopo province of South Africa

Military

• HMS Atherstone is the name of several Royal Navy ships
• RAF Atherstone, a former Royal Air Force base located south west of Atherstone on Stour

In transport

• Atherstone railway station, a railway station in Atherstone
• Atherstone rail accident, a rail accident which occurred at Atherstone railway station in 1960

Other uses

• Atherstone Hunt, a fox hunt based in Warwickshire

As a surname

• Edwin Atherstone (1788–1872), poet and novelist
• William Guybon Atherstone (1814—1898) medical practitioner, naturalist and geologist, one of the pioneers of South African geology and a member of the Cape Parliament