the Staffordshire County Senior League Premier Division. HM Prison Drake Hall is a women's closed prison. It is approximately a mile north of the town, near the village of Sturbridge. Nearby Cold Meece houses a British Army training area that used to be a Royal Ordnance Factory, ROF Swynnerton. It is often used by the Air Training Corps and the Army Cadet Force. Media In terms of television, Eccleshall is served by BBC Midlands Today and ITV Central. Local radio is covered by Signal Radio and BBC Radio Stoke. The town is also served by Free Radio Shropshire and Black Country. The local newspapers are the Staffordshire Newsletter and Express and Star, who have offices in Stafford, and The Stone and Eccleshall Gazette which comes from Stone. Transport The A519 road runs through the town. Junction 14 of the M6 motorway is five miles south of Eccleshall on the A5013. The nearest railway station was Norton Bridge, three miles east, which formally closed in 2017. The nearest operational railway stations are Stafford and Stone. Places of interest Holy Trinity Church dates from 1195. The tombs of five Bishops of Lichfield lie in the church, that of William Overton beside the altar being particularly notable. Eccleshall Castle was the palace of the Bishop of Lichfield. The Domesday Book details that the Eccleshall estate had been given to the Bishop of Lichfield some time before the Norman conquest, possibly as early as the 7th century. By the time Bishop John Lonsdale died in 1867 the lack of a railway was one of the main reasons that his successor Bishop Selwyn gave for the decision to sell the castle and thus sever the long association of Eccleshall with the Bishop of Lichfield. At the beginning of the last century the castle passed into the hands of the present owners, the Carter family (distant relations of former US President Jimmy Carter). The town itself was a relatively important market town by the time of the Wars of the Roses. In 1459, the castle was briefly a residence for the Queen, Margaret of Anjou, in her preparation for the Battle of Blore Heath, the site of which lies a few miles north of the town near Market Drayton. Later, the castle suffered damage during the English Civil War. The restored Mill Meece Pumping Station is to the north of Eccleshall. Twin towns Eccleshall is twinned