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Longton

1911 Encyclopedia Britannica

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a market-town of Staffordshire, England, on the North Staffordshire railway, 22 m. S.E. of Stoke-on-Trent, within which parliamentary and municipal borough it is included. Pop. (1901) 35,815. The town is in the Potteries district, and in the neighbourhood of coal and iron mines. It was governe d by a mayor, 10 aldermen and 30 councillors until under the "Potteries Federation" scheme (1908) it became part of the borough of Stoke-on-Trent in 1910.

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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Longton'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​bri/​l/longton.html. 1910.
 
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