Milton, Staffordshire
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Milton is an area of
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 ...
, in the county of
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, England. It is mainly situated between the A5009 and A53 roads. It shares its borders with Light Oaks, Baddeley Green,
Sneyd Green Sneyd Green is an area in the city of Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England, in the north-east of the city, from Hanley, Staffordshire, Hanley. Sneyd Green borders Smallthorne in the north, Milton, Staffordshire, Milton in the east, Birches H ...
and Abbey Hulton. Milton is part of the Baddeley Green, Milton and Norton ward of
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. Bagnall Road Wood, a local nature reserve, is a short distance east of the village.


History

The name Milton derived from the Old English terms 'Mill tun' and reflects the many mills that were in operation in the 19th century. In 1777, the Caldon Canal running through Milton was built and was important to the village's later development. It allowed packing houses for finished pottery to be constructed adjacent to the canal. From the late 19th century Milton had a number of industries. Prominent among these was Bullers Ltd who established a new factory at Milton in 1920. Bullers were manufacturers of electrical porcelain. There were also aluminium works, the British Aluminium Company, and chemical works, Josiah Hardman Ltd, at Milton. The Hardman Institute, which included a reading room, was established in 1895 by Josiah Hardman.


Railway

The opening of the railway from Milton to Cheddleton in 1867 (part of the
North Staffordshire Railway The North Staffordshire Railway (NSR) was a Great Britain, British railway company formed in 1845 to promote a number of lines in the Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire Potteries and surrounding areas in Staffordshire, Cheshire, Derbyshire and Shro ...
) extended Milton's transport infrastructure and provided the village with a local station. Part of the platform of Milton railway station still remains, as do the original tracks, running adjacent to the Caldon Canal.


Civil parish

Milton was formerly a
chapelry A chapelry was a subdivision of an ecclesiastical parish in England and parts of Lowland Scotland up to the mid 19th century. Status A chapelry had a similar status to a Township (England), township, but was so named as it had a chapel of ease ...
in the parish of Norton-in-the Moors, from 31 December 1894 Milton was a civil parish in its own right, on 1 April 1922 the parish was abolished and merged with Stoke-on-Trent. In 1921 the parish had a population of 2748.


References

{{Stoke-on-Trent Areas of Stoke-on-Trent Former civil parishes in Staffordshire