Butt Lane

Butt Lane
Congleton Road, the main street of Butt Lane
Butt Lane Location within Staffordshire
OS grid reference	SJ827544
Civil parish	Kidsgrove
District	Borough of 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′12″N 2°15′32″W / 53.086598°N 2.25875°W / 53.086598; -2.25875

Butt Lane is a village in the civil parish of Kidsgrove, in the Borough of Newcastle-under-Lyme, in the county of Staffordshire, England. The village borders on Church Lawton in Cheshire. A ward of the borough is named after it. It is also close to the towns of Alsager and Kidsgrove.

Amenities

Butt Lane is mostly a residential area with the neighbouring village of Talke having most of the amenities for the local residents. As well as Kidsgrove, which is a short distance to the east.

Transport

The village has regular bus services to Kidsgrove, Crewe, Biddulph, Congleton, Stoke-on-Trent. Alsager and Newcastle-under-Lyme.^[1]

The nearest rail station is Kidsgrove.

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 aeroplane Spitfire, used by the Royal Air Force and their allies.^[2]
• Ada Nield Chew (1870 at White Hall Farm, Butt Lane – 1945 in Burnley) was a British suffragist.

References

1. "Butt Lane – Bus Times". bustimes.org. Retrieved 22 August 2025.
2. Ritchie, Sebastian. "Mitchell, Reginald Joseph (1895–1937)." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, September 2004. Retrieved: 21 August 2010.