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These areas are a part of the City of Stoke-on-Trent. For notable people from these areas please see: Category:People from Stoke-on-Trent. The 6 founder towns of the city are: Burslem, Fenton, Hanley, Longton, Stoke-upon-Trent and Tunstall.
Stoke was located where the upper reaches of the Trent meets the Fowlea Brook. The later Roman road through 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.
Stoke railway works was set up in 1864 by the North Staffordshire Railway in the city of Stoke-on-Trent in the county of Staffordshire, England.. The railway's first engines were supplied by a variety of outside manufacturers: Robert Stephenson and Company, Vulcan Foundry, Hudswell Clarke, Kitson and Company, Neilson and Company, as well as Sharp Brothers and Company who supplied six ...
The following people, military units, and groups have received the honorary freedom of Stoke-on-Trent. This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items.
It is owned by Reach plc and based at Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent. [2] It is the only newspaper delivering daily news and features on professional football clubs Stoke City, Port Vale and Crewe Alexandra. The Sentinel also operates a website with sections on news, sport and entertainment, as well as a comprehensive directory of local businesses.
Dresden is a southern district of Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England, on Trentham Road (A5035) south of Longton. The district was developed in the 1850s by a housing society in an area formerly called Spratslade.
This category is for people born, raised or who spent a significant period of their life in the City of Stoke on Trent. In addition there are categories for individual areas of the city. The city was incorporated in 1910 and granted city status in 1925, thus before that time these districts will have been largely independent.
A Lord Mayor of Stoke-on-Trent in the 1950s, Horace Barks was a strong advocate of Esperanto (gaining the nickname Mr Esperanto). When 'The Green Star', a Smallthorne pub, was being built Barks requested that the brewery add the words 'la verda stelo' (the pub's name in Esperanto) onto the side of the building (the green star is a symbol of ...