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Butt Lane

Coordinates: 53°05′06″N 2°15′41″W / 53.085°N 2.2613°W / 53.085; -2.2613
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Butt Lane
Congleton Road, the main street of Butt Lane
Butt Lane is located in Staffordshire
Butt Lane
Butt Lane
Location within Staffordshire
OS grid referenceSJ825542
District
Shire county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townSTOKE-ON-TRENT
Postcode districtST7
Dialling code01782
PoliceStaffordshire
FireStaffordshire
AmbulanceWest Midlands
UK Parliament
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

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  • 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

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