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About Burton on Trent
Burton-upon-Trent also known as Burton-on-Trent,
or simply Burton, is a large town straddling the River
Trent in the east of Staffordshire, England, which
originally grew up around the monastery of St. Modwin.
The town has a population of 60,500 (2001 estimate).
It is the administrative centre for the East Staffordshire
district. For centuries, Burton has been associated
with the brewing industry due to the quality of the
local water. This comes from the high proportion of
dissolved salts in the water, predominantly caused
by the gypsum in the surrounding hills. Much of the
open land within and around the town is protected
from chemical treatment to help preserve this water
quality. The town is still home to five brewers: Coors,
a brewery from the USA which produces Carling. Coors
also brew Bass beer under licence from Interbrew
Marston's, now owned by Wolverhampton & Dudley
Breweries PLC Burton Bridge Brewery, a local company
and two new smaller outfits A by-product of the brewing
industry, figuratively and literally, is the presence
of the Marmite factory in the town. This in turn generated
the production of Bovril. Together with the breweries
this can give the area a distinctive smell. The development
of rail links to Liverpool enabled brewers to export
their beer throughout the British Empire. The accidental
shipwreck of a cargo boat carrying India Pale Ale
(an ale specially brewed to keep during the long sea
voyage to India) resulted in barrels being washed
ashore. The popularity of these fortuitous samples
resulted in the domestic marketing of such ale, and
began the gradual transformation of English drinking
tastes. Previously, Englishmen had drunk mainly stout
and porter - dark beers flavoured with roasted barley
and similar to Guinness - but bitter (a development
of pale ale) came to predominate. This extensively
hopped, lighter beer was easier to store and transport,
and so favoured the growth of larger breweries. Burton
came to dominate this trade, and at its height one
quarter of all beer sold in Britain was produced here.
Although over 30 breweries are recorded in 1880, a
process of mergers and buy-outs resulted in three
main breweries remaining by 1980: Bass, Ind Coopes
and Marstons. Today (2004) only Burton Bridge brewery
remains as an independent brewer. The fame of Burton
ales gave rise to the English euphemism "gone
for a burton" meaning to die - a World War II
humorous suggestion that a missing comrade had merely
nipped out for a beer. The town has a non-league association
football club, Burton Albion. The Burton & District
Cricket League has many notable clubs, which include
among others Lichfield Cricket Club The Burton Operatic
Society has been in existence since 1951 and is still
flourishing. The Burton suburb of Branston is where
the well-known Branston Pickle was invented and also
has a golf course. Claymills pumping station on the
north side of Burton is a restored Victorian sewage
pumping station, adjacent to the modern sewage works.
The town lies within the National Forest.
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