A RICH HERITAGE

Stoke-on-Trent – the city known as ‘The Potteries’ – is renowned for its world famous ceramics. Its future is based on its roles as a key regional gateway, with vibrant, distinctive towns and a strong city centre; a green environment of canals, greenspaces and parks that provide a setting for quality new development, alongside a proud, distinctive and characterful heritage.

The area is now recognised as a place for high quality urban living.

In City Waterside the industrial heritage includes several "potbanks" and the distinctive bottle kilns that were used to fire the pottery. Terraced housing hugs the hillside and Victorian school buildings give a sense of historic community.

THE CANAL
The Caldon Canal was opened in 1779 to transport limestone from quarries in the Peak District to the Potteries and the Midlands. Flint was also brought into the city for use in the pottery. Once completed, the ware was sent by canal barges and ships to grace the dining tables of the world.