Stoke On Trent area guides
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Located in the county of Staffordshire, Stoke-on-Trent (often referred to as Stoke) lies halfway between Birmingham and Manchester. The city consists of six individual towns and a number of smaller villages, which have merged over time to create one city. Stoke-on-Trent is home to a combined population of 457,165 [1] people and is well known as being the home of the UKâ~@~Ys pottery industry.
The six towns making up Stoke-on-Trent include Burslem, Fenton, Hanley, Longton, Stoke, and Tunstall. The centre of the city is located in the town of Hanley where a number of small shops can be found, as well as an emerging number of larger chain stores. The town of Stoke is considered the corporate centre of the area and is also home to the main campus of Staffordshire University and its large student population.
Stoke-on-Trent experiences typical English weather with moderate rainfall and frequent frost and fog. Winter temperatures consistently sit below 10ðC and summer temperatures reach occasional highs of 20ðC [2] .
Stoke-on-Trent is serviced by a main railway station which is located on the West Coast Main railway line running between Manchester and London as well as by the nearby M6 motorway. There are a number of airports that can be accessed within a one hour drive including Manchester, Birmingham International, East Midlands and Liverpool John Lennon.
Stoke-on-Trent Property Market
House prices in Stoke-on-Trent are priced considerably lower than the national average. The majority of housing is made up of traditional terraced style buildings (just under 50 per cent) with the smallest percentage of housing being flats, (about 9 per cent). In recent years there has been an increase of new housing developments in the outer regions of Stoke-on-Trent [3] .Ã|
The majority of properties in Stoke-on-Trent are owner occupied, and 15 per cent are rental properties. University students occupy a number of the rental properties as many choose to live off campus.Ã|