Burton upon Trent is a town on the stream Trent in East Staffordshire. It was having a populance of 72,299 in 2011. Burton is well known for preparing beer. The town previously produced around Burton Abbey. Burton Bridge was also the site of two fights, in 1322 when Edward II overwhelmed the rebel Earl of Lancaster and 1643 when royalists apprehended the town during the First English Civil War. William Lord Paget and his descendants were responsible for dispersal of the manor house within the grounds of abbey and facilitating the delay of the River Trent Navigation to Burton. Burton developed as a busy market town by the early modern period.
Burton is the managerial centre for the area of East Staffordshire and forms part of the Burton electorate. The local Member of Assembly is the Traditional Party's Andrew Griffiths, who has indicated the Burton electorate since May 2010. The Traditionalists detached the seat from Labor in the 2010 general election with an 8.7% swing.
In 1978 it was combined as a municipal borough. The combined area was divided between the counties of Staffordshire and Derbyshire - the Local Government Act 1888 combined the total of the area in Staffordshire, including the former Derbyshire parishes of Stapenhill and Winshill. It developed a county borough in 1901, having touched the 50,000 population obligatory.
It never significantly exceeded the population of 50,000, and at a population of 50,201 in the 1971 survey was the smallest county area in England after Canterbury. The Local Government Commission for England optional in the 1960s that it be relegated to a non-county borough within Staffordshire, but this was not applied.
It is nearly 109 miles north-west of London, approx. 30 miles to northeast of Birmingham, which is the UK's second largest city and about 23 miles east of the county town Stafford. It is located at the eastern part of the county of Staffordshire; it's an against the course of the River Trent creating part of the county boundary.
The total population of town is 43,784 in the 2001 Survey. Winshill and Stapenhill were treated distinctly and together had a additional population of 21,985. According to the 2001 survey, 71% of the town's population classify themselves as Christian, 12% as a nonbeliever or doubting and 8.5% Muslim. In the 2011 census shows that the population of the town is 72,299.