Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for LONGPORT

LONGPORT, a village in Burslem township and parish, Stafford; on a branch of the Trent canal, and suburban to Burslem. It has a post office, under Stoke-upon-Trent, and several wharves on the canal; it carries on the manufacture of earthenware, porcelain. and flint. glass; and it contains Burslem-St. Paul's church, and several dissenting chapels. See BURSLEM.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a village"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Burslem CP/Ch       Staffordshire AncC
Place: Longport

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