1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Burton-upon-Trent |←Burton, William
Evans||1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, Volume 4 |See also Burton
upon Trent on Wikipedia, and our 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica
disclaimer.| BURTON-UPON-TRENT, a market town and municipal and
county borough in the Burton parliamentary division of
Staffordshire and the Southern parliamentary division of
Derbyshire, England; lying mainly upon the left bank of the
Trent, in Staffordshire. Pop. (1891) 46,047; (1901) 50,386. It
is 127 m north-west from London by the London & North-Western
and the Midland railways, and is also served by the Great
Northern and North Staffordshire railways. The Trent is
navigable from a point near the town downward. The neighbouring
country is pleasant enough, particularly along the river, but
the town itself is purely industrial, and contains no pre-
eminent buildings. The church of St Mary and St Modwen is
classic in style, of the 18th century, but embodies some remains
of an ancient Gothic building. Of a Benedictine abbe