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Just to split hairs neither Trentham Gardens or Alton Towers are geographically in Stoke-on-Trent.
zoogiraffe
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I thought it was 5 or are you using the new fangled idea of Hanley been a town???????
zoogiraffe
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Thank goodness for that thought i was finally have to give up on the idea of Stoke-on-Trent been the 5 Towns,nice to see a younger person not falling in to modern ways that are not always the best ways.
malachi123
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Trentham has a Stoke on Trent post code. And has Stoke on Trent tagged onto the end of the address. I work there as well and the company address is Stoke on Trent. I wonder where it really is then!! I can't think of a lot to do in "Stoke" then other than visiting the pottery factories/ museums. And the ski slope if it's still working. 
Stoke-on-Trent is comprised of six towns. North to south it is Tunstall, Burslem, Hanley, Stoke-upon-Trent, Fenton (my area) and Longton. It is Arnold Bennett who is to blame for the confusion, his novel Anna of the Six Towns was renamed by the publisher who thought Anna of the Five Towns sounded better, so he left out Fenton.
Hanley is called the city centre by the council despite a lot of opposition from the public who still consider Stoke itself to be the city centre. Hanley is the commercial centre. Stoke was at one time the only city in the UK which did not have a cathedral. King George V conferred the honour in 1925.
The western boundary for the City of Stoke-on-Trent is more or less along the A34, from the junction with the A500 to just south of the junction with the A5035 at Trentham Gardens. Trentham Gardens does have a Stoke postcode, but so does Alsager which is in Cheshire.
Just as confusing is the Wedgwood factory at Barlaston. It is actually in an area administered by Staffordshire Council along with Trentham Gardens. So any tourists who say they have been to see pottery made at Wedgwood in Stoke, technically have not done so.
Yes, I was good at history and geography in my school days.
Hanley is called the city centre by the council despite a lot of opposition from the public who still consider Stoke itself to be the city centre. Hanley is the commercial centre. Stoke was at one time the only city in the UK which did not have a cathedral. King George V conferred the honour in 1925.
The western boundary for the City of Stoke-on-Trent is more or less along the A34, from the junction with the A500 to just south of the junction with the A5035 at Trentham Gardens. Trentham Gardens does have a Stoke postcode, but so does Alsager which is in Cheshire.
Just as confusing is the Wedgwood factory at Barlaston. It is actually in an area administered by Staffordshire Council along with Trentham Gardens. So any tourists who say they have been to see pottery made at Wedgwood in Stoke, technically have not done so.
Yes, I was good at history and geography in my school days.
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zoogiraffe
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Don`t say Alsager is in Stoke-on_Trent you will upset the locals alot of them don`t like it,I should know i lived their for over 20 years.I was told that it was Hanley that wasn`t part of the 5 towns but then again was told that by somebody who lived in the town of Stoke-upon-Trent!!!!!
never been so I don't know. But in Regents Park in London recently I saw juvenile herons walking about on the island nearest the path, and several very tame adults standing around with the ducks and pigeons by the Baker Street entrance to the Park. I can remember when the herons started nesting(or returned?) to Regents Park and were still shy, nesting on an island at the back of the lake. Times have changed.
Do you know how many nests its got? At one time the largest heronry in the Uk was somewhere in North Kent (Halstow/Halstead/Hadlow?
)One of the next biggest was on Brownsea Island in Poole Harbour.