Whitmore, Staffordshire

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Whitmore
Location within Staffordshire
Population1,554 (2011) [1]
OS grid reference SJ810407
District
Shire county
Region
Country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town Newcastle
Postcode district ST5
Dialling code 01782
Police Staffordshire
Fire Staffordshire
Ambulance West Midlands
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52°57′51″N2°17′00″W / 52.9642°N 2.2834°W / 52.9642; -2.2834

Whitmore is a village, civil parish and small curacy in the county of Staffordshire, England, near Newcastle-under-Lyme. Besides Whitmore, the parish also includes the hamlets of Acton, Butterton and Shutlanehead.

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The name Whitmore can be found in the Domesday book (as Witemore) and also when King John signed Magna Carta at Runnymede.

Whitmore Hall, designated a house of outstanding architectural and historical interest and a fine example of a small Carolean-style manor house, is the home of the Cavenagh-Mainwaring family.

Butterton gives its name to the Butterton-Swynnerton dykes, a set of igneous intrusion of Palaeogene age which run NNW-SSE through the area. Butterton dyke was discovered by Charles Darwin in 1842. [2]

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Butterton is a civil parish in the district of Staffordshire Moorlands, Staffordshire, England. It contains nine listed buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England. All the listed buildings are designated at Grade II, the lowest of the three grades, which is applied to "buildings of national importance and special interest". The parish contains the village of Butterton and the surrounding countryside. The listed buildings consist of farmhouses and farm buildings, cottages, a church, a bridge, and two mileposts.

The Butterton-Swynnerton dykes are an assemblage of igneous intrusions which extend in a roughly north-northwest to south-southeast alignment through Staffordshire in the English Midlands.

References

  1. "Civil Parish population 2011" . Retrieved 3 December 2015.
  2. Muir-Wood, Robert (2024). This Volcanic Isle. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 93. ISBN   9780198871620.

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