Tony Brooks wrote: > Is not Port possibly a corruption of the Low Countries word for a > gate. Probbaly a town gate? > > Perhaps places called port (as above) but without nearby boat access > may have had a gate at one time.
"Port" is used for several places in the northern part of Stoke-on-Trent - Middleport, Longport, Westport, even Port Vale ;-) Steve NB Bream
