Atherstone (disambiguation)

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