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Stoke-on-Trent is a city in The West Midlands that's often abbreviated to Stoke. Stoke is a city in Staffordshire a county in England, which forms a conurbation almost 12 miles long, with an area of 36 square miles. Together with the Borough of Newcastle-under-Lyme, Stoke forms the The Potteries Urban Area. This, together with the rural Staffordshire Moorlands area, forms North Staffordshire, which from the 2001 cenus, had a population of 457,165.
The city formed by the federation of six originally separate towns and numerous villages in the early-20th century. The original settlement from which the federated town (not a city until 1925) took its name was Stoke-upon-Trent, because this was where the administration (and chief mainline railway station) was located. After the union, Hanley emerged as the primary commercial centre in the city, despite the efforts of its rival, Burslem. The three other component towns are Tunstall, Longton, and Fenton.
Stoke-on-Trent is considered to be the home of the pottery industry in England and is commonly known as The Potteries. Formerly a primarily industrial conurbation, it is now a centre for service industries and distribution centres. The city is a unitary authority with a directly elected mayor.
Stoke is linked to the nearby M6 motorway at junctions 15 and 16 by the A500. The A500 loops between M6 and M1 motorway junctions, the A50 cuts through the city, providing an East-West link.
The city's rich past can best be explored through visiting one of its many museums & galleries; such as the Etruria Industrial Museum, the Elizabethan Ford Green Hall, the world-class ceramics collection at the main Potteries Museum & Art Gallery, Gladstone Pottery Museum (an Anchor Point of ERIH, The European Route of Industrial Heritage) and Ceramica in Burslem. Burleigh in Middleport is the world's oldest working Victorian pottery.
Stoke-on-Trent is home to two professional football teams, Stoke City ("the Potters"), who play at the Britannia Stadium after a move from the Victoria Ground in 1997, and Port Vale ("the Valiants") who play at Vale Park.
In Speedway, the Stoke Potters and Basketball Stoke Spitfires compete in the city.
Stoke is also home to Staffordshire University formerly known as North Staffordshire Polytechnic.
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