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Stoke-on-Trent (a menudo abreviada a Stoke), también conocida como The Potteries, es una ciudad y autoridad unitaria del condado de Staffordshire, en la región de Midlands del Oeste, Inglaterra, Reino Unido.
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Stoke-on-Trent (often abbreviated to Stoke) is a city and unitary authority area in Staffordshire, England, with an area of 36 square miles (93 km 2). In 2021, the city had an estimated population of 258,400.
- Name
- Growth of Stoke and Its Transport Links
- King's Hall
- Stoke Market
- The Potteries
- Stoke Today
- Further Reading
On 1 April 1910, the town was federated into the county borough of Stoke-on-Trent. By 1925 the area was granted city status. Confusion can arise over the similarity of this town's name to that of the larger city. If the new borough had to be named after one of the original towns, the main reason for using "Stoke" is that this was where the new town...
Stoke was located where the upper reaches of the Trent meets the Fowlea Brook. The later Roman roadthrough Stoke remained the basis for local road transport long after the Roman occupation. The Anglian name given to this ancient place of meeting and worship was the 'stoc' (meeting place) on the Trent. It was the site of the first church in the area...
The assembly hall, ballroom, exhibition hall and theatre built in 1910–11 at the time of the federation to the design of T. Wallis and J. A. Bowater, and with an impressive 19-bay dressed stone frontage on Kingsway behind the town hall. It has proved itself to be a useful adjunct to the town hall of 1834–50. This was built on Glebe Street, opposite...
Stoke has held markets in various locations in the town since 1818. A market was set up within the newly built town hall in the 1830s, but this did not prove popular with the market traders of the time and in 1845 the market moved to Hide Street (the building can still be seen today). In 1883 the market relocated to a larger purpose-built building ...
In the 19th century, Stoke had a thriving pottery industry, hence its nickname, "The Potteries". Since the last half of the 20th century, however, almost all of the bottle-shaped kilns have been taken down, due to regulations from the Clean Air Act – an estimated 4,000 bottle kilns in the heyday of the pottery industry, today reduced to a mere 46. ...
Although Stoke is surpassed by its neighbouring town, Hanleyin terms of size, population, and shops, it does have: 1. Stoke Minster 2. the same (abbreviated) name as the city 3. the mainline railway station 4. the main campus of Staffordshire Universityand its library (on the original site of the Staffordshire Cricket Club grounds) and the halls of...
Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Stoke-on-Trent" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 25 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 951.Robert Donald, ed. (1908). "Stoke-upon-Trent". Municipal Year Book of the United Kingdom for 1908. London: Edward Lloyd. hdl:2027/nyp.33433081995593.The Staffordshire Potteries is the industrial area encompassing the six towns Burslem, Fenton, Hanley, Longton, Stoke and Tunstall, which is now the city of Stoke-on-Trent in Staffordshire, England. North Staffordshire became a centre of ceramic production in the early 17th century, due to the local availability of clay, salt, lead ...
Stoke-on-Trent, también conocida como The Potteries, es una ciudad y autoridad unitaria del condado de Staffordshire, en la región de Midlands del Oeste, Inglaterra, Reino Unido. La ciudad es una federación de seis pueblos: Hanley, Stoke, Burslem, Tunstall, Longton y Fenton, que conforman una ciudad lineal de casi diecinueve kilómetros de ...
8 de may. de 2024 · Stoke-on-Trent, city and unitary authority, geographic and historic county of Staffordshire, west-central England, consisting of the industrial ceramic-producing area known as the Potteries.
