Stoke-on-Trent

:This page is about Stoke-on-Trent in England. For other places called Stoke or for other uses of that word please see Stoke (disambiguation).

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The city of Stoke-on-Trent (also known as The Six Towns and The Potteries) is a city in The Midlands, United Kingdom.

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The Midlands - United Kingdom

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Stoke-on-Trent is situated almost equidistant to all the major cities in the North/Midlands of the UK (Manchester, Birmingham, Leicester, Nottingham, Liverpool, Sheffield). The city is named after the town of Stoke, the earliest of the six towns to be established.

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Manchester - Birmingham - Leicester - Nottingham - Liverpool - Sheffield - Stoke

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This city runs into Newcastle-under-Lyme, which is administered separately. Together they form a conurbation with a population of over 350,000.

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Unlike most English cities, its council is led by a directly-elected mayor; the first was Mike Wolfe (independent) then, from May 2005 to date, Mark Meredith (Labour Party). The city is the only one of the eleven English districts with elected mayors to use the mayor and council manager system rather than the mayor and cabinet system.

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Directly-elected mayor - Mike Wolfe - Mark Meredith - Mayor and council manager - Mayor and cabinet

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