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- See the following links for details of the six towns:- Tunstall Burslem Hanley Stoke Fenton Longton
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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.
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The federation of Stoke-on-Trent was the 1910 amalgamation of the six Staffordshire Potteries towns of Burslem, Tunstall, Stoke-upon-Trent, Hanley, Fenton and Longton into the single county borough of Stoke-on-Trent.
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!
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.
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Dec 15, 2009 · Each of the six towns have their own town halls and, while they may have been united 100 years ago, there's still close rivalry between them. And for the last 100 years, there has been no...
Jun 25, 2009 · Pottery has linked the six towns of Burslem, Hanley, Longton, Stoke, Tunstall and Fenton since the 17th century. But it wasn’t until the end of the 1800s that the idea of uniting all six as...
The six towns amalgamated in 1910 to become the county borough of Stoke-on-Trent. In 1925 it was granted city status. Locally it is still known as ‘the Potteries’ and every ‘Stokie’ will tell you that it consists of six towns.
