Stoke-upon-Trent

Stoke-on-Trent, formed from six pottery towns, sits in Staffordshire's Trent Valley and remains England's ceramic capital. The M6 provides main access via junctions 15 and 16, with the A500 bypass linking to Birmingham and Manchester routes. Over 80 EV charging points support the growing electric vehicle network. The city houses the last working bottle oven at Gladstone Pottery Museum, where traditional firing methods continue unchanged from Victorian times.