Why visit Longton
Townapedia lists 11 museums and landmarks, 17 parks and trails, 75 places to eat, 2 places to stay and 4 attractions in and around town.
Highlights include Regent Theatre, Repertory Theatre, Stoke-on-Trent, Gladstone Pottery Museum and Potteries Museum & Art Gallery.
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About Longton
Longton is one of the six towns which amalgamated to form the county borough of Stoke-on-Trent in 1910, along with Hanley, Tunstall, Fenton, Burslem and Stoke-upon-Trent in Staffordshire, England.
From the Wikipedia article Longton, Staffordshire (this version), under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Things to do4
Regent Theatre
Cinema and theater · 3.4 mi
Theatre and former cinema in Stoke-on-Trent, England
Repertory Theatre, Stoke-on-Trent
Cinema and theater · 2.6 mi
Theatre in Leek Road, Stoke-on-Trent, England
Empire Theatre
Cinema and theater
Former theatre in Stoke-on-Trent, England, later used as a bingo hall
Gaumont Stoke-on-Trent
Cinema and theater · 2.5 mi
Former cinema in Stoke-on-Trent, England
Museums and landmarks11
Gladstone Pottery Museum
Museum
Industrial museum in Staffordshire, England
Uttoxeter Road, Stoke-on-Trent
Potteries Museum & Art Gallery
Museum · 3.3 mi
Art museum & local museum in Stoke-on-Trent, United Kingdom
Trentham Mausoleum
Monument and historic site · 2.9 mi
Grade I listed mausoleum in Trentham, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England, UK
Parks, trails and playgrounds17
Barlaston and Rough Close Common
Park · 2.1 mi
Nature reserve in Staffordshire, UK
Goin' Golf
Golf course · 1.1 mi
King Street, Stoke-on-Trent
Mo 17:00-22:00; Tu-Fr 12:00-22:00; Sa,Su 10:00-20:00
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Restaurants and cafes75
Costa
Cafe · Coffee Shop · 0.6 mi
Baths Road, Stoke-on-Trent
Mo-Fr 05:00-21:00; Sa 06:00-20:00; Su 07:00-19:00
Britannia Café
Cafe
58 The Strand, Stoke-on-Trent
Mo-Sa 08:00-17:00
The Moroccan Cafe
Cafe · Moroccan
20 Bennett Precinct, Stoke-on-Trent
Mo,Tu,Th-Sa 10:00-18:00; We 08:30-18:30; Su 11:00-18:00
The Sound of Coffee
Cafe · 0.4 mi
4-6 Market St Market Street, Stoke-on-Trent
Mo-Sa 08:00-17:00; Su closed
Crumbs Family Bakery
Bakery · 0.4 mi
6 Bennett Precinct, Stoke-on-Trent
We-Sa 10:00-16:00
Linny's Kitchen
Restaurant · Breakfast, Brunch
62 The Strand, Stoke-on-Trent
63 more on the map.
History
Longton ('long village') was a market town in the parish of Stoke in the county of Staffordshire. The town still has a market housed in an attractively renovated market hall. Longton is an ancient village with hundreds of years of history. It was a long, straggling township (hence its name) for centuries until its population doubled in the space of a decade, the 1960s.
Coal miners in the Hanley and Longton area ignited the 1842 general strike and associated Pottery Riots. The summer of 1842 was a time of riot across the north and midlands of England, including north Staffordshire. The riot impacts employees strike in pottery factories, which were dependent on coal to fire their wares, and many pottery workers had their hours of work reduced, leading to great hardship. On 14 and 15 August 1842 the prominent radical writer and poet, Thomas Cooper, spoke at a number of open-air meetings in Stoke-on-Trent in support of the local colliers entry. Following his speech on 15 August, a number of men marched through Hanley, Shelton, Stoke, Penkhull, Fenton and Longton destroying property and encouraging others to join them. The riots continued through the night and the following morning a large crowd assembled in Burslem.
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Longton was historically in the ancient parish of Stoke upon Trent, in March 1865, Longton and Lane End were incorporated as the Borough of Longton, on 31 December 1894 Longton became a civil parish. On 1 April 1910, the town was federated into the county borough of Stoke-on-Trent. On 1 April 1922 the parish was abolished and merged with Stoke on Trent. At the 1921 census (the last before the abolition of the parish), Longton had a population of 37,812. Longton and Lane-End are two townships, or liberties, forming one flourishing market town now commonly called Longton, and situated at the southern extremity of the Potteries, five miles South East of Newcastle .
Arnold Bennett referred to Longton as Longshaw, one of the "five towns" featured in his novels set in the Staffordshire Potteries.
A shopping precinct, the Bennett Precinct, opened in 1962. It is now named Longton Exchange.
From the History section of Longton, Staffordshire on Wikipedia, under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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Education
Secondary schools in the area include St Thomas More Catholic Academy and Stoke Studio College.
Together with Rochdale, then in Lancashire, Longton was host to the first Workers' Educational Association tutorial classes. R. H. Tawney, known as "the patron saint of adult education", taught the classes for three years starting in January 1908.
From the Wikipedia article Longton, Staffordshire, under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable people from Longton
Jamie CopeEnglish snooker playerPhoto: Benutzer:Bill da Flute, CC BY-SA 3.0- Jack ChewFootballer (1915-1984)
- Alf SmithEnglish footballer (1880-1941)
- Billy WoottonEnglish footballer (1904–2000)
- Albert MooreEnglish footballer (1898-?)
- Phil HeathEnglish footballer (born 1964)
- Louis WilliamsFootballer (1889-?)
- George GallimoreEnglish footballer (1886-1949)
- William DaviesEnglish footballer, born 1884
- Bill WilliamsonEnglish footballer (1884-1918)
- Ernest Albert Egertonrecipient of the Victoria Cross
- Charles HallamFootballer (1902-1970)
Born in Longton, according to Wikidata (CC0). Each name links to its Wikipedia article.
Where to stay2
Churches and places of worship32
Our Lady of the Angels and St Peter in Chains Church, Stoke-on-Trent
Church · 2.9 mi
Shopping12
The Little Longton Book Exchange
Shop · 0.4 mi
23 Bennett Precinct, Longton, Stoke-on-Trent
Gas and EV charging6
Schools, colleges and libraries26
Healthcare14
Map of Longton
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Getting there and nearby towns
Manchester Airport (MAN) is the nearest airport with scheduled flights listed in OpenStreetMap, 26 miles away.
- Stoke-on-Trent 3 mi northwest, about 4 min by car
- Newcastle under Lyme 4 mi west, about 7 min by car
- Stone 5 mi south, about 9 min by car
- Uttoxeter 13 mi southeast, about 20 min by car
- Sandbach 15 mi northwest, about 24 min by car
- Market Drayton 16 mi west, about 25 min by car
- Nantwich 17 mi west, about 28 min by car
- Rugeley 18 mi southeast, about 28 min by car
- Newport 18 mi southwest, about 29 min by car
- Middlewich 19 mi northwest, about 31 min by car
Drive times are estimates from straight-line distance, not routes.
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Photo credits
- Regent Theatre, Stoke-on-Trent, Futurilla, CC BY 2.0
- Stoke-on-Trent Repertory Theatre, Rept0n1x, CC BY-SA 2.0
- Bottle Kiln, MartynDavies, CC BY-SA 3.0
- Potteries museum & art gallery, Leereyno at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0
- Bethesda, Stoke-on-Trent 2, Exterior Frontage, Stepped, CC BY-SA 3.0
- Christ Church, Fenton, from south-east, AtticTapestry, CC BY-SA 4.0
- St Mark's Church, Boul22435, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Stoke Minster, Futurilla, CC BY-SA 2.0
- View of the church from Normacot Road, Longton, PhilR SoT, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Aerial view of Stone Circel at Berryhill Fields, Gkbediako, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Hanley Park - panoramio (3), Tanya Dedyukhina, CC BY 3.0
- Street-level photo, adam2, CC BY-SA 4.0
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