* Uttoxeter Heritage Centre

It has a further three factories in nearby Cheadle, Staffordshire ( JCB Earthmovers, JCB Landpower and JCB Compact Products ), one in Rugeley ( JCB Cab Systems ), three in Uttoxeter ( JCB Attachments, JCB Heavy Products and JCB World Parts Centre ), one in Foston in Derbyshire ( JCB Power Systems ) and one in Wrexham in North Wales ( JCB Transmissions ).

Uttoxeter has a three-tier schooling system that consists of several first schools, three middle schools ( Oldfields Hall Middle School, Windsor Park Middle School and Ryecroft Middle School, Rocester ) and a high school.

Uttoxeter Rugby Club was formed in 1982 when JCB Rugby club began to play its games at Oldfields sport and social club in Uttoxeter establishing the first rugby side in the town traditionally associated with football.

Uttoxeter has a football club called Uttoxeter Town FC, also based at the aforementioned Oldfields sports and social club which for many years has been successful in the Burton and District Sunday Football League.

Uttoxeter Fire Station is on Cheadle Road to the north of the town.

The town also featured in a critically praised short story entitled " The Long, Long Road to Uttoxeter " by journalist and TV presenter Rod Liddle in his book Too Beautiful for You.

Despite the attraction of the Burton Road Babington lane route, it is possible that the course of the original Rykneld Way did not deviate but continued in a straight line through the rear of what was the Crest Motel, across Chain Lane, then following Owlers Lane and Constable Lane, across what is now the Bemrose School fields, eventually joining what is now called Uttoxeter Old road and further to the recorded camp around Belper Road.

The oldest parts of the village now are located along Uttoxeter Road ( B5020 ).

There is also a Methodist chapel and a Roman Catholic church on Uttoxeter Road called Our Lady of Lourdes.

The local garage, situated at the top of Tuppenhurst Lane and on the Uttoxeter Road, was demolished in 2003.

It has a high school, sixth form college and library, as well as two public houses: The Black Cock on Uttoxeter Road and The Duke of Wellington.

The Uttoxeter Road, a former major motorway link route ( M1 to M6 ) was partially relieved by the A50 dual-carriageway.

It is possible that Uttoxeter had some form of Roman activity due to its strategic position on the River Dove and closeness to the large garrison forts at Rocester between 69 and 400, and recently discovered fort at Stramshall, though little collaborating archaeology has been found.

Fox's Biscuits ( previously Elkes and Adams ) has a factory in Uttoxeter.

Uttoxeter town centre has gone through a development scheme, with the Market Place, Market Street, Queens Street, Carter Street, and High Street having undergone a major transformation.

The town also has a mainline railway station, Uttoxeter railway station which was opened by the North Staffordshire Railway on 2 October 1881, however, there were earlier stations opened by the North Staffordshire Railway.

At one time it was also the terminus of a branch of the Caldon Canal ( aka the Uttoxeter Canal ), although most signs of this, apart from an area of Uttoxeter called " The Wharf ", have now disappeared — largely because much of the bed of the canal was used in the 19th century as the route of the North Staffordshire Railway main line from Uttoxeter to Macclesfield ( which has now also disappeared ).

Top Gear presenter and journalist Jeremy Clarkson has previously written that his favourite car journey of all time was in an Aston Martin from Newcastle upon Tyne to Uttoxeter Race Course.

Uttoxeter also has a Methodist church which dates from 1812, a United Reformed church on Carter Street, a Pentecostal Church and a Free Church.

The school is one of the most sought after primary schools in Staffordshire, with five single entry classes, the school is part of the Uttoxeter catchment ( popular for its middle school system and entry to Thomas Alleyne's Secondary School ) and has a good Ofsted report.

A few bridges from the Uttoxeter branch remain, with the occasional ' milepost ', and Uttoxeter still has an area called " The Wharf ".

The Caldon & Uttoxeter Canals Trust has put forward plans to re-open the Uttoxeter Branch.

The town stands near the Grand Trunk canal, and near the Crewe, Stoke, and Uttoxeter railway, 4¼ miles N by W of Stoke-upon-Trent ; shares largely in the industry of the Potteries, carries on manufactures of earthenware, porcelain, bricks, tiles, chemicals, and iron ; is well built and well-paved ; and has a post-office ‡ under Stoke-upon-Trent, a r. station with telegraph, three banking offices, a town hall, a market place, two churches, several dissenting chapels, a literary institute, public schools, and markets on Mondays and Saturdays.

In one episode of the sketch, two obnoxious business entrepreneurs ( who run various companies in Uttoxeter throughout the series ) develop grand plans for a popular sports centre.

By his own account, Crisp was effeminate in behaviour from an early age and found himself the object of teasing at Kingswood House School in Epsom, from where he won a scholarship to Denstone College, Uttoxeter, in 1922.

Blithfield Hall ( pronounced locally as Bliffield ), is a privately owned Grade I listed country house in Staffordshire, England, situated some east of Stafford, southwest of Uttoxeter and north of Rugeley.

Croxden is a village in the county of Staffordshire, England, south of Alton and north of Uttoxeter.

Uttoxeter ( ) is a historic market town and civil parish in Staffordshire, in the West Midlands region of England.

Uttoxeter lies close to the River Dove in the Borough of East Staffordshire, and is near the cities of Stoke-on-Trent, Derby and Lichfield.

Uttoxeter also saw the last major royalist surrender of the English Civil War, on 25 August 1648, when James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Hamilton surrendered to Parliamentarian General John Lambert.

Perhaps the most famous event to have occurred in Uttoxeter is the penance of Samuel Johnson.

Johnson's father ran a bookstall on Uttoxeter market, and young Samuel once refused to help out on the stall.

Mary Howitt, the Quaker writer of the poem " The Spider and the Fly ", lived in Uttoxeter for a long period of her life.

In 1945, Joseph Cyril Bamford founded J C Bamford Excavators Limited in Uttoxeter, now known as JCB.

The firm's first vehicle was a tipping trailer made from war-surplus materials, which J. C. Bamford built in a rented lock-up garage in Uttoxeter.

Uttoxeter celebrated its 700 year anniversary of the awarding of a Market charter ( 1308 ) in 2008, which underpins the market provision on Saturdays and Wednesdays in particular, and other festival markets.

One of the main employers in Uttoxeter is the global construction, demolition and agricultural equipment company JCB.

The firm is headquartered in Rocester, with a factory in Uttoxeter and one in Cheadle.

Uttoxeter Racecourse, home to the Midlands Grand National, also brings a lot of visitors to the town, as do the town centre's shops and markets.

Uttoxeter previously housed a large dairy and was historically a major trader in butter and cheese.

The old JCB site in the centre of Uttoxeter is currently lying vacant and is awaiting redevelopment, after the firm moved operations to one of its sites on the edge of town.

According to the 2001 census the population for Uttoxeter Civil Parish was 12, 023.

Uttoxeter is on the main A50 trunk road.