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6 days ago · The city of Stoke-on-Trent combines the former towns of Burslem, Fenton, Hanley, Longton, Stoke-upon-Trent, and Tunstall. The British Ceramic Research Association’s laboratories were opened in 1951, and Staffordshire University (founded 1970) has programs in ceramic technology.
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Jul 18, 2024 · The six towns of Stoke-on-Trent have a history that dates back centuries - and the place names offer a glimpse into the past, where farmsteads and woodland dotted the landscape.
Stoke-on-Trent is often known as "the city of five towns", the name given to it by local novelist Arnold Bennett, and is the only polycentric city in the UK. In his novels, Bennett used mostly recognisable aliases for five of the six towns, although he called Stoke "Knype".
May 22, 2021 · Stoke-on-Trent may be a comparative youngster as a city – officially designated in 1925. But the six towns have a rich history that dates back centuries.
- Kathie Mcinnes
Mar 12, 2024 · Stoke-on-Trent is different; a city proudly known as The Six Towns; Longton, Fenton, Stoke, Hanley, Burslem and Tunstall. Growing up in the 90s, as a Fentoner, or Fentonian, I remember being rather put out to learn at primary school that Stoke-on-Trent was once known as the Five Towns because Fenton had been left out – for shame!
Stoke-on-Trent is a federation of six much older towns forming a linear city almost twelve miles long with an area of 36 square miles. On 31st March 1910 a single county borough called Stoke-on-Trent was formed.
*Stoke-on-Trent* was formed in 1910 as a federation of six Staffordshire pottery towns—Tunstall, Burslem, Hanley, Stoke, Fenton, and Longton. The development of the conurbation was largely 19th cent.
