Editing Stoke-on-Trent (section)

==Points of interest==
[[File:Potteries museum & art gallery.JPG|thumb|[[Potteries Museum & Art Gallery]]]]
The city's ceramics collection is housed in the [[Potteries Museum & Art Gallery]] in Hanley.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.stokemuseums.org.uk/collections/ceramics/|title=Ceramics - Stoke Museums|work=Stoke Museums|access-date=6 June 2017|language=en-US|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170610082219/http://www.stokemuseums.org.uk/collections/ceramics/|archive-date=10 June 2017}}</ref> [[Etruria, Staffordshire#Etruria Industrial Museum|Etruria Industrial Museum]] on the [[Caldon Canal]], and [[Gladstone Pottery Museum]] in a former potbank in Longton are dedicated to the city's industrial heritage.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thepotteries.org/heritage/the_works.htm|title=' The Works' - The industrial heritage of the potworks|website=www.thepotteries.org|access-date=6 June 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130314033219/http://thepotteries.org/heritage/the_works.htm|archive-date=14 March 2013|url-status=live}}</ref> There is [[Stoke Minster]] which is located in the Stoke-upon-Trent area and is the only official church with [[Minster (church)|Minster status]].

Most of the major pottery companies based in Stoke-on-Trent have factory shops and visitor centres. The £10&nbsp;million [[Wedgwood|Wedgwood Museum]] visitor centre opened in the firm's factory in [[Barlaston]] in October 2008. The Dudson Centre in Hanley is a museum of the family ceramics business, which is partly housed in a Grade II listed bottle kiln. It is a volunteer centre. 

[[Burleigh Pottery|Burleigh]] in [[Middleport, Staffordshire|Middleport]] is the world's oldest working [[Victorian era|Victorian]] pottery. There are smaller factory shops, such as Royal Stafford in Burslem, [[Moorcroft]] in Cobridge and [[Emma Bridgewater]] in Hanley. There are ambitious plans to open the huge [[Chatterley Whitfield]] Colliery as a mining museum since it has been given [[scheduled monument]] status.

The [[Elizabethan era|Elizabethan]] [[Ford Green Hall]] is a 17th-century farmhouse which is now a [[historic house museum]] in [[Smallthorne]].

[[File:Miss Elizabeth - geograph.org.uk - 265639.jpg|thumb|right|''Miss Elizabeth'' is a pleasure boat that travels the length of Trentham Lake, within [[Trentham Gardens]]]]
Although [[Trentham Gardens]] is in the [[Borough of Stafford]], it is just south of the city and is considered by many locals to be part of Stoke-on-Trent. Next door is [[Trentham Monkey Forest]], which houses 140 [[Barbary macaque]]s in a {{convert|60|acre|m2|adj=on}} enclosure that visitors can walk through.

The [[Alton Towers|Alton Towers Resort]] is {{convert|10|mi|km}} east of Stoke-on-Trent and is one of the United Kingdom's best-known attractions. The [[Water World, Stoke-on-Trent|Waterworld]] indoor swimming complex on [[Stoke-on-Trent Garden Festival|Festival Park]] near Hanley is also a significant children's attraction.

Each of the six towns in Stoke-on-Trent has at least one park. At nine hectares, [[Burslem Park]] is one of the largest registered Victorian parks in the UK.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.stoke.gov.uk/ccm/cms-service/download/asset/?asset_id=2167397 |title=Burslem Park factsheet |access-date=28 September 2010 |publisher=[[Stoke-on-Trent City Council]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101129055020/http://www.stoke.gov.uk/ccm/cms-service/download/asset/?asset_id=2167397 |archive-date=29 November 2010 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Park Hall Country Park in Weston Coyney is a [[national nature reserve (United Kingdom)|national nature reserve]], and its sandstone canyons are a [[Site of Special Scientific Interest]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.stoke.gov.uk/ccm/navigation/leisure/parks/park-hall-country-park/ |title=Park Hall Country Park |access-date=18 August 2008 |publisher=[[Stoke-on-Trent City Council]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081121110114/http://www.stoke.gov.uk/ccm/navigation/leisure/parks/park-hall-country-park/ |archive-date=21 November 2008 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Hartshill Park in Stoke is a nature reserve. Bucknall Park is home to the City Farm. [[Westport Lake, Stoke-on-Trent|Westport Lake]] in Longport is the largest body of water in Stoke-on-Trent<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.stoke.gov.uk/ccm/content/et/environment-team/westport-lake.en |title=Westport Lake |access-date=18 August 2008 |publisher=[[Stoke-on-Trent City Council]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080503105038/http://www.stoke.gov.uk/ccm/content/et/environment-team/westport-lake.en |archive-date=3 May 2008 |url-status=dead }}</ref> and has a nature reserve. Queens Park or Longton Park in Dresden is one of the city's heritage parks and is famous for its horticulture and lakes. It houses several buildings including a clock tower and three bowling pavilions.