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Hotels in Stoke are often required for tourists who require short term accommodation. Some may want to stay at old or new hotels.
Staffordshire is divided into a number of districts. These are Cannock Chase, East Staffordshire, Lichfield, Newcastle-under-Lyme, South Staffordshire, the Borough of Stafford, Staffordshire Moorlands, and Tamworth. Stoke on Trent is administered as an independent unitary authority.
In the north and in the south the county is hilly, with wild moorlands in the far north and Cannock Chase an area of natural beauty in the south. In the middle regions the surface is low and undulating. Throughout the entire county there are vast and important coal fields. In the southern part there are also rich iron ore deposits. The largest river is the Trent. The soil is chiefly clay and agriculture was not highly developed until the mechanisation of farms.
Ceremonial county of Staffordshire
Stoke-on-Trent
Cannock
Chase • East Staffordshire • Lichfield • Newcastle-under-Lyme •
South Staffordshire • Stafford • Staffordshire Moorlands • Tamworth
Cities
and towns
Biddulph • Burntwood • Burton upon Trent • Cannock
• Cheadle • Eccleshall • Fazeley • Hednesford • Kidsgrove
• Leek • Lichfield • Newcastle under Lyme • Penkridge •
Rugeley • Stafford • Stoke-on-Trent (Burslem • Fenton • Hanley
• Longton • Stoke • Tunstall) • Stone • Tamworth •
Uttoxeter
Stoke, or to give it its full name, Stoke-upon-Trent is a component town of the city of City of Stoke-on-Trent, in the ceremonial county of Staffordshire, England. Stoke was located where the River Trent meets 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. It was the site of the first church in the area, built of wood around the year 670, later rebuilt in stone, and now known as Stoke Minster. A significant small town grew up around this church.
In the 18th Century, the "Grand Trunk" canal came along the Trent valley to carry china clay from Cornwall cheaply to the Potteries (and pottery safely away). Many of the promoters of the canal were pottery magnates.
In the 19th century, the railways, too, came along the valley. The mainline Stoke-on-Trent railway station was opened by the North Staffordshire Railway on October 9, 1848, replacing the temporary station sited at Whieldon road which was constructed for the opening of the first NSR line on April 17, 1848. Travellers to the region would change trains at Stoke for local trains to their ticketed destination. 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. Successful Stoke-upon-Trent potters include Spode, Copeland, Minton and Biltons.
Burton upon Trent, also known as Burton-on-Trent or simply Burton, is a large town straddling the River Trent in the east of Staffordshire, England. Its associated adjective is "Burtonian".
Burton is best known for its brewing heritage. It originally grew up around Burton-on-Trent Abbey, the monastery of Saint Modwen, and had grown into a busy market town by the early modern period. While Burton's great bridge over the Trent was in poor repair by the early 1500s, it served as a comen passage to and fro many countries to the grett releff and comfort of travellyng people, according to the abbot. There is some confusion as to whether Burton is based in the West Midlands or the East Midlands, even though all of the urban centre is southwest of the River Dove, which forms the Derbyshire/Staffordshire boundary.
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