Built-up area in Stoke-on-Trent, England
| Coordinates: | 53.02, -2.156 |
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| OS grid ref: | SJ 89 46 |
| Population: | 258,366 |
| Dialling code: | 01782 |
Stoke-on-Trent sits in central Staffordshire and is a conurbation created from six towns - Tunstall, Burslem, Hanley, Stoke, Longton and Fenton - often collectively called The Potteries. Its identity was forged in the 18th and 19th centuries by pottery manufacture, clay and coal extraction, with the Trent and Mersey Canal and a dense industrial landscape shaping the city’s geography and history.
Today the city still celebrates that ceramic heritage in places such as the Gladstone Pottery Museum and the Potteries Museum & Art Gallery, while diversifying into advanced manufacturing, logistics and creative industries and investing in regeneration and green spaces like Trentham Gardens. Socially it retains a strong local identity - visible in cultural life and the support for local football at Stoke City - balancing proud industrial roots with ongoing change.
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