Meir is a

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Stoke-on-Trent Stoke-on-Trent (often abbreviated to Stoke) is a city and Unitary authorities of England, unitary authority area in Staffordshire, England. It has an estimated population of 259,965 as of 2022, making it the largest settlement in Staffordshire ...

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situated between

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and Longton. Meir Park estate extends from Meir uphill to the Meir Heath and Rough Close village hall, located in

Meir Heath Meir Heath is a village just at the southern tip of Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire situated on a hilltop between Meir and Rough Close, miles from Barlaston and only 5 miles from Stone. The population as taken at the 2011 census can be found un ...

Meir Aerodrome

Meir Aerodrome closed in the early 1970s and the site has now become the Meir Park housing estate. The earlier parts have mainly aviation-associated street names. The last official flight was on 16 August 1973 when Fred Holdcroft flew a Piper Tri-Pacer carrying a ''

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'' journalist to Manchester. The last unofficial flight "a year or two" later by Eric Clutton was in a home-made folding machine called

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(Flying Runabout Experimental Design) which the pilot towed home behind his car. The light planes used to be parked on the grass alongside the A50 road, opposite the Airport Garage, which remains.

Staffordshire Potteries The Staffordshire Potteries is the industrial area encompassing the six towns Burslem, Fenton, Hanley, Longton, Tunstall and Stoke (which is now the city of Stoke-on-Trent) in Staffordshire, England. North Staffordshire became a centre of c ...

had a factory (now demolished) beside the aerodrome.

Schools

* Abbey Hill Academy
Crescent Primary School

Meir Heath Primary School
* Ormiston Meridian Academy * St Augustine's R.C. Primary School * Sandon Primary Academy

Transport

Meir is situated along the A50. At the centre sits the junction with the A520. Once a notorious traffic jam site, a

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was built in 1997 to take the A50 underneath. The twin tunnels were walled with ceramic panels which were reported to have cost about £1,000 each when they began to come loose through rusting of their attachments after a few years. Meir was served by a railway station from 1894 to 1966.

Nearest places

Barlaston Barlaston is a village and civil parish in Staffordshire, England, halfway between Stoke-on-Trent and Stone. At the 2011 census, the population was 2,858. History Historic buildings St John's Church The old parish church of Saint John is site ...

Blythe Bridge Blythe Bridge () is a village in Staffordshire, England, south-east of Stoke-on-Trent. Etymology Blythe Bridge is so called as it is built around the site of a bridge over the River Blithe (spelt differently from the name of the village itsel ...

* Lightwood * Longton * Trentham

References

Areas of Stoke-on-Trent {{Staffordshire-geo-stub