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The road then crossed the young River Trent and ran down Lane Delph (now the end of the modern King Street, Fenton), toward Normacot. There is documentary evidence in the 1223 foundation charter of the Abbey of Hulton in Stoke-on-Trent [ 6 ] which names the (then still existing) Rykeneld Street as a boundary of the lands at Normacot assigned to ...
The first Methodist building in Longton was erected in 1783. John Wesley first preached in Longton in 1784, in the open air since the meeting house was too small. A Methodist chapel was later built in Chapel Street in 1804.
Longton railway station is a railway station in England at Longton, Stoke-on-Trent. The station is served by trains on the Crewe to Derby Line which is also a community rail line known as the North Staffordshire line. The station is owned by Network Rail and managed by East Midlands Railway.
Blue Moonlight Properties 039 (Pty) Ltd v Occupiers of Saratoga Avenue and Another, [1] an important case in South African property law, was heard in the Witwatersrand Local Division by Judge Thokozile Masipa [2] on 30 May 2008, with judgment handed down on 12 September.
St Thomas More Catholic Academy is a mixed secondary school and sixth form located in the Longton area of Stoke-on-Trent in the English county of Staffordshire. [1] The school is named after Saint Thomas More, a sixteenth century elder statesman who was martyred for his refusal to accept King Henry VIII's claim to be the supreme head of the church.
Lightwood is a suburb of Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England.It is located to the south of Longton, and Lightwood Road runs from here to Rough Close.. The area gives its name to the Lightwood Hoard, a substantial collection of Roman coins discovered buried in the garden of a house on Lightwood Road in 1960.
A carved panel on the face of the town hall showing the Stoke-on-Trent Borough coat of arms. The original building on the south side of Times Square, which was designed in the neoclassical style and built in ashlar stone, consisted of just seven bays (the east wing of the current structure) and was completed in 1844. [1]
The station opened as Longton on 18 May 1882 as the temporary terminus of the West Lancashire Railway when it opened the section of line from Hesketh Bank. [1] [2] The station became a through station when the section of line to Preston Fishergate Hill opened on 16 September 1882. It was renamed to Longton Bridge on 1 January 1892. [1]