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.
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.Ritchie, Sebastian. "Mitchell, Reginald Joseph (1895–1937)." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, September 2004. Retrieved: 21 August 2010. Ada Nield Chew (1870 at White Hall Farm, Butt Lane – 1945 in Burnley) was a British suffragist.
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