Butt Lane
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| Butt Lane | |
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| File:Congleton Road in Kidsgrove (geograph 4568278).jpg Congleton Road, the main street of Butt Lane | |
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| OS grid reference | SJ827544 |
| Civil parish | |
| District | |
| Shire county | |
| Region | |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | STOKE-ON-TRENT |
| Postcode district | ST7 |
| Dialling code | 01782 |
| Police | Staffordshire |
| Fire | Staffordshire |
| Ambulance | West Midlands |
| UK Parliament | |
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Butt Lane is a village in the civil parish of Kidsgrove, in the Borough of Newcastle-under-Lyme, in the county of Staffordshire, England. The village borders on Church Lawton in Cheshire. A ward of the borough is named after it. It is also close to the towns of Alsager and Kidsgrove.
Amenities
[edit | edit source]Butt Lane is mostly a residential area with the neighbouring village of Talke having most of the amenities for the local residents. As well as Kidsgrove, which is a short distance to the east.
Transport
[edit | edit source]The village has regular bus services to Kidsgrove, Crewe, Biddulph, Congleton, Stoke-on-Trent. Alsager and Newcastle-under-Lyme.[1]
The nearest rail station is Kidsgrove.
Notable people
[edit | edit source]- Reginald Mitchell CBE, FRAeS, (1895 in Congleton Road, Butt Lane – 1937 in Southampton) was the designer of the well-known World War II fighter aeroplane Spitfire, used by the Royal Air Force and their allies.[2]
- Ada Nield Chew (1870 at White Hall Farm, Butt Lane – 1945 in Burnley) was a British suffragist.
References
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- ^ Ritchie, Sebastian. "Mitchell, Reginald Joseph (1895–1937)." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, September 2004. Retrieved: 21 August 2010.
