Butt Lane

Butt Lane
Butt Lane
	Congleton Road, the main street of Butt Lane
	Butt Lane Location within Staffordshire
OS grid reference	SJ825542
District	Newcastle-under-Lyme;
Shire county	Staffordshire;
Region	West Midlands;
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	Stoke-on-Trent North;
	List of places UK England Staffordshire 53°05′06″N 2°15′41″W / 53.085°N 2.2613°W

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.

^ 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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