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Longport, Staffordshire

Historical Description

Longport, a village in Burslem township and parish, Staffordshire, on a branch of the Trent and Mersey Canal, and suburban to Burslem. It has a station on the North Staffordshire railway, a post, money order, and telegraph office under Stoke-upon-Trent, and several wharves on the canal; it carries on the manufacture of earthenware, porcelain, and flint glass, and it contains St Paul's Church. See BURSLEM.

Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

Ancient CountyStaffordshire 
Civil parishBurslem 
HundredPirehill 
Poor Law unionStoke-upon-Trent 

Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.


Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Longport from the following:


Maps

Online maps of Longport are available from a number of sites:

CountyCity of Stoke-on-Trent
RegionWest Midlands
CountryEngland
Postal districtST6
Post TownStoke-On-Trent

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