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 Wedgwood Museum, Stoke-on-Trent
The City of Stoke-on-Trent is famously known as the Pottery capital of England . Originally Stoke was made up of six separate towns.
 Gladstone Museum, Stoke-on-Trent
The original town was named Stoke-upon-Trent. Today Stoke, together with one of its boroughs, Newcastle-under-Lyme, forms the 'Potteries Urban Area'. Stoke can look back on a long history of craftsmanship in pottery. Since the 17th century the area has been known for its excellent pottery manufacturing. When the 'Trent and Mersey Canal' was established in 1777 the city's wealth grew. China clay could be imported from Cornwall , which led to the production of bone china and creamware in Stoke.
Today the city houses a world class collection of Pottery. The collections can be visited in the Potteries Museum & Art Gallery. In the Gladstone Pottery Museum, which is a working museum, the visitor is provided an inside into the methods of industrial pottery manufacturing during the industrial revolution period. The Gladstone museum belongs to the European Route of Industrial Heritage. The pottery companies in Stoke nowadays offer a broad variety of products in their factory shops and visitor centers. Another interesting museum will re-open its gates soon. The Wedgwood Museum in Burslem has built a new visitor cente, which is due to open in Autumn 2008. The Wedgwood company produced and collected pottery since the 18th century and has a tremendous collection on display.
Stokes many green parks are ideal to relax since every of the six original villages Tunstall, Burslem, Hanley, Stoke, Fenton and Longton own their own city parks. The Trentham gardens in the south have been completly refurbished in 2005. Located next to the gardens is the Trentham Monkey Forest, which is a 60 acre small zoo that houses 140 Barbary Macacques.
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