Atherstone (disambiguation)

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


 * In geography


 * 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
 * Atherstone, Melton, a housing development in City of Melton, Victoria, Australia


 * 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
 * Atherstone Ball Game, a medieval football game placed on Shrove Tuesday in the English town of Atherstone, 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