Points of interest Stoke-on-Trent

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potteries museum & art gallery


the city s ceramics collection housed in potteries museum & art gallery in hanley. etruria industrial museum on caldon canal, , gladstone pottery museum in former potbank in longton dedicated city s industrial heritage.


most of major pottery companies based in stoke-on-trent have factory shops , visitor centres. £10 million wedgwood museum visitor centre opened in firm s factory in barlaston in october 2008. dudson centre in hanley museum of family ceramics business, partly housed in grade ii listed bottle kiln. volunteer centre. burleigh in middleport world s oldest working victorian pottery. there smaller factory shops, such royal stafford in burslem, moorcroft in cobridge , emma bridgewater in hanley. in addition, there ambitious plans open huge chatterley whitfield colliery mining museum, since has been given scheduled monument status.


the elizabethan ford green hall 17th-century farmhouse historic house museum in smallthorne.



miss elizabeth pleasure boat travels length of trentham lake, within trentham gardens


many local people consider trentham gardens in stoke-on-trent in borough of stafford. south of city , £100 million refurbishment completed in 2005. next door trentham monkey forest, houses 140 barbary macaques in 60-acre (240,000 m) enclosure visitors can walk through.


the alton towers resort 10 miles (16 km) east of stoke-on-trent , 1 of united kingdom s best known attractions. waterworld indoor swimming complex on festival park near hanley significant children s attraction.


each of 6 towns in stoke-on-trent has @ least 1 park. @ 9 hectares, burslem park 1 of largest registered victorian parks in uk. park hall country park in weston coyney national nature reserve, , sandstone canyons site of special scientific interest. hartshill park in stoke nature reserve, , bucknall park home city farm. westport lake in longport largest body of water in stoke-on-trent , has nature reserve. queens park or longton park in dresden 1 of city s heritage parks , famous horticulture , lakes. houses several buildings including clock tower , 3 bowling pavilions.








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