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Burton upon Trent, also known as Burton-on-Trent or simply Burton, is a market town in the borough of East Staffordshire in the county of Staffordshire, England, close to the border with Derbyshire. At the 2021 census, it had a population of 76,270. The demonym for residents of the town is Burtonian.
The entire population of Staffordshire is 1,069,000. Staffordshire has two cities, Stoke on Trent and Lichfield. There are a number of towns but the majority of settlements in the county are small rural villages.
Burton is a civil parish in Staffordshire, England. It covers an area in the centre and north-east of Burton upon Trent. The population of the civil parish taken at the 2011 census was 2,632. [1] The parish was created on 1 April 2003. [2]
Burton and Uttoxeter is a constituency [a] represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom since 2024 by Jacob Collier of the Labour Party. [ b ] Although the constituency had always, since its creation in 1918, contained the town of Uttoxeter , it was formally known as Burton until the 2024 general election .
Shobnall Fields, Burton-upon-Trent Seen from the Trent and Mersey Canal. Shobnall is a settlement and civil parish located in Staffordshire, England. It covers an area located in the west of Burton upon Trent. The population of Shobnall taken at the 2011 census was 5,071. [1]
The council is based at Burton upon Trent Town Hall. The building was originally built in 1878 as the St Paul's Institute and Liberal Club, before being given to the old Burton upon Trent Borough Council in 1891 and subsequently converted to become a town hall. Significant extensions were added in 1894 and 1939. [15] [16]
Additional county boroughs were later created at Burton upon Trent in 1901 and Smethwick in 1907, removing them from the administrative county. [6] In 1910 the administrative county ceded Burslem , Fenton , Longton , Stoke-upon-Trent and Tunstall to the new County Borough of Stoke on Trent , which also took in the previous county borough of Hanley.
Land area taken up by the green belt is 720 hectares (7.2 km 2; 2.8 sq mi), [2] making it the smallest in the country. [3] [4] The main coverage is within the South Derbyshire district, mainly concentrated within the unparished area around Swadlincote and the parish of Bretby, with smaller tracts in the parishes of Castle Gresley, Cauldwell and Drakelow.