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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Longport like this:
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.
Longport is now part of STOKE ON TRENT Unitary Authority. Click here for graphs and data of how STOKE ON TRENT has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Longport itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Longport, in Stoke on Trent and Staffordshire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/25355
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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