Butt Lane
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.
| Butt Lane | |
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.jpg.webp) Congleton Road, the main street of Butt Lane | |
  Butt Lane Location within Staffordshire | |
| OS grid reference | SJ825542 |
| 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 | |
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
- 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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