Blurton

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Blurton is a district in the south of Stoke-on-Trent, in the English county of Staffordshire.{{cite map|title=Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 118 Stoke-on-Trent & Macclesfield|ISBN= 9780319229064 |publisher=Ordnance Survey|date=2012}}{{cite web|url=https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/opendatadownload/products.html|title=Ordnance Survey: 1:50,000 Scale Gazetteer|format=csv (download)|date= 1 January 2016|publisher=Ordnance Survey|website=www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk|access-date=30 January 2016}} Hollybush, Old Blurton, Blurton Farm and Newstead are the names of the areas in which make up the town known as Blurton.{{cite web|url=http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadKeyFigures.do?a=7&b=13695879&c=blurton&d=14&e=62&g=6386935&i=1001x1003x1032x1004&m=0&r=1&s=1450628491656&enc=1|title=Blurton East Ward,Stoke MBC population 2011|access-date=20 December 2015}}{{cite web|url=http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadKeyFigures.do?a=7&b=13695880&c=blurton&d=14&e=62&g=6386937&i=1001x1003x1032x1004&m=0&r=1&s=1450628606343&enc=1|title=Blurton West and Newstead Ward, Stoke MBC population 2011|access-date=20 December 2015}}

Education

Sutherland Primary Academy, The Meadows Primary Academy & Newstead Primary Academy provide co-ed learning for pupils up to the age of 11.

Blurton has one co-ed secondary school. Ormiston Sir Stanley Matthews Academy.

Transport

First Potteries, part of the FirstGroup, provides two routes in the town.

The 22 goes from Longton to Newcastle-under-Lyme via Blurton, Trentham, Hanford, Trent Vale and Royal Stoke Hospital and vice versa.

23. This route goes to; Newstead, Blurton, Heron Cross, Fenton, Stoke-upon-Trent, Stoke Rail station, Shelton and Hanley / City Centre and reverse.

Via the local bus service you can get a train via the West Coast Main Line to Manchester and London etc.

There are also Intercity trains going to places such as Birmingham, Birmingham international (for Birmingham airport and the NEC) with some services going on to Cardiff or the south coast and intermediate stations. The Crewe Derby line which serves both Longton and Stoke is now running trains to Newark Castle via Nottingham.

Politics

Stoke-on-Trent city council is Labour held. Blurton is situated in the Stoke-on-Trent South parliamentary constituency, it is the seat of Allison Gardner of the Labour party.

References

Category:Areas of Stoke-on-Trent

Category:Villages in Staffordshire