A town likewise saw a go surrender (Royalist to Parliamentarian) of the English Civil War in 1646.

Maybe a best known event to use occurred around Uttoxeter is the penance of Samuel Johnson. Johnson's father ran the bookshop in Uttoxeter market, & immature Samuel when refused to help retired on the stall. Whilst Johnson was older, he sub the rain (forswearing the hat) as a penance for his failure to assist his father. This event is commemorated by using the Johnson Memorial, which sub the Market Place, in the town centre & there exists besides a Johnson Road, which was known as when him in the 1930's.

Uttoxeter besides found minor fame when the setting of a revenant comedy sketch by comedians Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie in their BBC television series A Bit of Fry and Laurie. In the sketch, 2 objectionable business enterpriser grow grand plans for the popular sports centre. There exists indeed a sports centre around Uttoxeter, although these are non begin by comedians & the sketch derives it's humour from either the fact that Uttoxeter is in point of fact a super quietly & tranquillize town. A title can likewise become said sustaining modest humurous result.

Economy
A independent employers within Uttoxeter are JCB, makers of agricultural machinery, and Elkes biscuit factory. Too nearby is Alton Towers Theme Park, and a Peak District national park.

Transport
Conveyance is on the independent A50 and has a mainline train station, Uttoxeter railway station.

At once it was as well the terminus of a branch of the Caldon Canal (aka the Uttoxeter Canal), although most signs of this, apart from either an region of Uttoxeter known as "The Wharf", use nowadays disappeared - largely through the bed of the canal getting been utilized in the 19th Century when the route of a freshly railway.