Butt Lane

Human settlement in England
  • Newcastle-under-Lyme
Shire county
  • Staffordshire
Region
  • West Midlands
CountryEnglandSovereign stateUnited KingdomPost townSTOKE-ON-TRENTPostcode districtST7Dialling code01782PoliceStaffordshireFireStaffordshireAmbulanceWest Midlands UK Parliament
  • Stoke-on-Trent North
List of places
UK
England
Staffordshire
53°05′06″N 2°15′41″W / 53.085°N 2.2613°W / 53.085; -2.2613

Butt Lane is a village in North Staffordshire near the town of Kidsgrove in the Borough of Newcastle-under-Lyme, North Staffordshire. Butt Lane borders on Church Lawton in Cheshire. A ward of the borough is named after the place.

Notable people

  • Reginald Mitchell CBE, FRAeS, (1895 in Congleton Road, Butt Lane – 1937 in Southampton) was the designer of the well-known World War II fighter airplane Spitfire, used by the Royal Air Force and their allies.[1]
  • Ada Nield Chew (1870 at White Hall Farm, Butt Lane – 1945 in Burnley) was a British suffragist.

References

  1. ^ Ritchie, Sebastian. "Mitchell, Reginald Joseph (1895–1937)." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, September 2004. Retrieved: 21 August 2010.


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