Barlaston

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Barlaston







Statistics
Population:	2,659
Ordnance Survey
OS grid reference:	SJ894387
Administration
District:	Stafford
Region:	West Midlands
Constituent country:	England
Sovereign state:	United Kingdom
Other
Ceremonial county:	Staffordshire
Historic county:	Staffordshire
Services
Police force:	Staffordshire
Fire and rescue:	Staffordshire
Ambulance:	Staffordshire
Post office and telephone
Post town:	STOKE-ON-TRENT
Postal district:	ST12
Dialling code:	01782
Politics
UK Parliament:	Stone
European Parliament:	West Midlands

Barlaston is a village and civil parish in the borough of Stafford in the county of Staffordshire, England. It is roughly halfway between the city of Stoke-on-Trent and the small town of Stone. According to the 2001 census the population of the parish was 2,659.

1 History
2 Education
3 Transport
4 Nearest Places
5 Reference
6 External link

[edit] History

The old parish church of Saint John is sited on the edge of the Wedgwood estate. It was built to the design of C. Lynam in 1886-8, retaining the west tower from the original medieval building, with the subsequent addition of a vestry in 1969. In 1981 the building had to be closed owing to mining subsidence and a temporary building next to the church took its place until the new church was built on Green Lane.

Wedgwood moved their pottery manufacturing business to a large modern factory in a new village in the north of the parish. The factory was planned in 1936 and built in 1938-40 to the modern industrial designs of Keith Murray who was also a designer of Wedgwood pottery. The factory has a tourist visitor centre and has its own car-parks and a bus station. Wedgwood railway station was opened for the factory in 1940 but closed in 2004. Nearby is Barlaston Hall c1756 by Sir Robert Taylor (architect) and at one time a Wedgwood family home.

[edit] Education

Barlaston First School
The Wedgwood Memorial College in Barlaston is a Worker's Educational Association residential college, and also serves as the headquarters of the Esperanto Association of Britain

[edit] Transport

Close by the village are: the A34 road; the River Trent; the Trent and Mersey Canal; a route of National Cycle Network; and the railway - which all pass west of the village. Barlaston railway station is on the Manchester branch of the West Coast Main Line but inter-city trains do not stop and the local passenger service was replaced by a bus service in 2004.