Basford, Staffordshire

St Mark's Church is in Basford, Staffordshire, England. It is an active Anglican parish church, in the deanery of Newcastle-under-Lyme, the archdeaconry of Stoke-on-Trent, and the diocese of Lichfield.

The New Vic Theatre is a purpose-built theatre in the round in Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire. The theatre opened in 1986, replacing a converted cinema, the Victoria Theatre in Hartshill, Stoke-on-Trent.

May Bank is a suburb of Newcastle-under-Lyme in Staffordshire, England. The leader of Newcastle Borough Council Simon Tagg is a May Bank ward councillor.[1]

Hartshill and Basford Halt was a railway station located between the Stoke-on-Trent and Newcastle-under-Lyme stations on the Market Drayton branch of the North Staffordshire Railway, approx 1.5 miles (2.4 km) east of Newcastle. It closed in 1926.

Newcastle-under-Lyme School is a mixed Private day school in the town of Newcastle-under-Lyme in Staffordshire, England. It came about by a merger of the old Newcastle High School (founded in 1874) with the Orme Girls' School (founded in 1876). Earlier predecessors date back over 400 years.

Wolstanton is a suburban town on the outskirts of Newcastle-under-Lyme, in the Newcastle-under-Lyme district, in the county of Staffordshire, England.

St Margaret's Church is an Anglican church in Wolstanton, Staffordshire, England, and in the Diocese of Lichfield. The building is Grade II* listed.

Porthill Park, also known as the Old County Ground, is a cricket ground located in Wolstanton, Staffordshire. The first recorded match on the ground was in 1920 when Staffordshire played against Cheshire in the ground's first Minor Counties Championship match. Staffordshire utilized the ground from 1920 to 1966 and then again between 1999 and 2004. Throughout its history, the ground has hosted 45 Minor Counties Championship matches and 5 MCCA Knockout Trophy matches. The last of these matches took place in 2004 when Staffordshire played against Northumberland.The ground has also hosted a single List-A match between Staffordshire and the Warwickshire Cricket Board in the 2001 Cheltenham & Gloucester Trophy.In local domestic cricket, Porthill Park Cricket Club calls the ground its home. The club competes in the North Staffordshire and South Cheshire League.

Etruria station is a closed station in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England, which served the areas of Etruria and the larger district of Newcastle-under-Lyme. It closed on 30 September 2005.

The Stoke-on-Trent Built-up Area or The Potteries Urban Area or colloquially, simply "The Potteries" is a conurbation in North Staffordshire in the West Midlands region of England. It includes the City of Stoke-on-Trent, and parts of the boroughs of Newcastle-under-Lyme and Staffordshire Moorlands.The area had a population of 384,000 in 2019, a small increase from the 2001 census figure of 362,403 with Stoke-on-Trent making up over 70% of this population. It is sometimes called The Potteries Urban Area due to the area's fame for pottery manufacture ever since the industrial revolution.

The Orme Academy, previously known as Wolstanton High School and Wolstanton County Grammar School, is a high school in Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire.

Wolstanton was a rural district in Staffordshire, England from 1894 to 1904. It was created by the Local Government Act 1894 based on Wolstanton rural sanitary district. It was abolished in 1904 with the parishes being divided between successors. The parish of Goldenhill ultimately became part of the county borough of Stoke-on-Trent. The parishes of Kidsgrove and Newchapel became the Kidsgrove Urban District, which survived until 1974. Milton and Chell were added to the Smallthorne Urban District, which continued until 1922, then becoming part of Stoke-on-Trent. Wolstanton, Silverdale and Chesterton formed the Wolstanton United Urban District, which became part of Newcastle-under-Lyme Municipal Borough in 1932.