Stoke-on-Trent Built-up Area
The Stoke-on-Trent Built-up Area or The Potteries Urban Area or colloquially, simply "The Potteries"" is a conurbation in North Staffordshire in the West Midlands region of England.
It includes the City of Stoke-on-Trent, and parts of the boroughs of Newcastle-under-Lyme, Kidsgrove, Staffordshire Moorlands.
The area had a population of 436,409 in 2016, a small increase from the 2011 census figure of 372,101 with Stoke-on-Trent making up over 70% of this population. It is sometimes called The Potteries Urban Area due to the area's fame for pottery manufacture ever since the industrial revolution.
