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- 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.
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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!
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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.
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.
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.
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...
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.
Stoke-upon-Trent, also known as Stoke, is one of the six towns that along with Hanley, Burslem, Fenton, Longton and Tunstall form the city of Stoke-on-Trent, in Staffordshire, England. The town was incorporated as a municipal borough in 1874.
