Stoke On Trent Leasing

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Stoke-on-Trent is a city Staffordshire. It’s best known for its pottery industry. The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery displays locally made ceramics plates, decorative arts and the WWII Spitfire. The Gladstone Pottery Museum is in a former Victorian factory. The Trent-ham Estate has landscaped Italian gardens and a forest with monkeys in them. From Westport Lake, the Canoe Trail follows canals east to Frog-hall Wharf.

Stoke-on-Trent Victorian pottery factories, this was the days when coal burning ovens made the world's finest bone china.

Stoke was such a common name for a common settlements, so in time some kind of distinguishing affix was usually added later, in this case the name of the river, the Trent.

Stoke is polycentric, having been formed by a federation of six towns in the early 20th century. It took its name from Stoke-upon-Trent, where the railway station and the town hall are situated.

Did you know that the tiles on the floor of the Houses of Parliament were made in Stoke-on-Trent, by Minton?

Calling people 'duck' apparently has nothing to do with aquatic birds. It's said to come from the Saxon word 'ducas' from which the title of duke was derived.

Stoke on Trent's pottery industry dates back to the mid-17th century, when a small community of farmer-potters was established. They made pots for butter made in Burslem. Hence, Burslem is regarded by many as the 'mother of the potteries'. Potters started to set up small factories in nearby Hanley, Stoke and Tunstall, as well as Fenton and Longton, and by 1740.

Stoke-upon-Trent, commonly called Stoke, is a town that amalgamated with 6 Towns, Hanley, Tunstall, Fenton, Longton and Burslem to form the county borough of Stoke-on-Trent in 1910

The largest city in Staffordshire is Stoke-on-Trent with approximately 250,000 out of 1,100,000 people living there.

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