The Potteries Walks: Stoke-on-Trent Heritage and History

Welcome to this collection of walks and articles exploring the streets, districts, villages and waterways of Stoke-on-Trent and the wider Potteries. From the six towns of Tunstall, Burslem, Hanley, Stoke, Fenton and Longton to the surrounding communities that have grown alongside them, these pages provide a journey through the history and character of North Staffordshire.

Each walk invites the reader to look beyond the familiar modern landscape and rediscover the traces of the past: old pottery works, vanished railway lines, canals, packhorse roads, cemeteries, parks, chapels and town streets shaped by centuries of industry and community life. The articles bring together local history, architecture, transport, industry and the lives of the people who made this district one of the most important ceramic centres in the world.

Whether you are following a route on foot, researching family or industrial history, or simply interested in the changing face of the Potteries, this index offers a gateway into the rich story of the city and its neighbouring places. Every road, district and townscape has a history, and these pages help bring those stories back into view.

Tunstall  |  Burslem  |  Hanley  |  Stoke  |  Fenton |  Longton 

Abbey Hulton  |  Adderley Green  |  Ash Bank  |  Basford 

 Bentilee & Berryhill  |  Birchenwood  |  Bradwell  |  Brownhills  | Blurton

 Chell Heath  |  Cobridge  |  Dalehall  |  Dimsdale  |  Dresden  |  Etruria 

 Foley  |  Goldenhill  |  Harecastle  |  Hartshill  |  Heron Cross  |  Howard Place 

Hulton Abbey  |   Lane Delph  |  Lane End  |  Longport  |  Lower Lane

Meir  |  Middleport  |  Milton  |  Mount Pleasant (Fenton)  |  Normacot

Northwood  |  Norton  |  Penkhull  |  Pitts Hill  |  Rushton Grange  | Sneyd Green

Shelton  |  Smallthorne  |  Trubshaw Cross  | Winton's Wood

Trentham  |  Newcastle-under-Lyme | Werrington 

 Bagnall | Caverswall  | Kidsgrove | Moddershall  | Wetley Rocks  

People  |  Canals 

Tunstall

Tunstall: In this township abounds coal, ironstone, marl and fine channel coal; and the manufactories of earthenware are very extensive here.

the history of Tunstall Cemetery

A walk around Tunstall Cemetery - Tunstall cemetery was laid out on part of Tunstall Farm in 1868. - The Sneyd family were the owners of about 1,250 acres of land in the manor of Tunstall in the 18th century. This included Holly Wall Farm by Holly Wall Lane and Tunstall Farm at Clay Hills north west of Tunstall.

Tunstall on the Potteries Loop Line

Greengates, Tunstall - this green and pleasant irony.

Ladywell, Tunstall - a town of courts, wells and windmills.

Paradise Street, Tunstall

Paradise Street, Tunstall - "Specially noteworthy are the two terraces, each of 20 houses, which form the south side of Paradise Street and the north side of Piccadilly Street at the west end of Tower Square. They were built in 1821 by the Tunstall Building Society which had been formed in 1816 with 32 members, many of them working potters."

Burslem lost its heart and Tunstall gained its soul - what has caused the changes to the town that was once seen as a commercial upstart which earned it the name ‘plucky little Tunstall?’

Tunstall & Pinnox in depth - On the loop line between Pitts Hill and Burslem was the station at Tunstall and two junctions - the Newfield Junction and the busy Pinnox Junction.

Burslem

Burslem: The Wedgwood Family and Enoch Wood. - The changes in the town from George I to accession of Queen Victoria (1714-1837).

Packhorse & Turnpikes - The eighteenth century saw the development of the North Staffordshire pottery industry from a cottage industry to a major exporting industry. The connection was the packhorse road from the Fountain Place works of Enoch Wood in Burslem, though Longbridge (now Longport) and onto to Newcastle.

Bournes Bank - once one of Stoke on Trent’s most important roads.

Bournes Bank, Burslem - Once part of a packhorse road which ran from Hanley through onto  Church Lawton. Bournes Bank was originally called Church Street and was the main path down to St. John's Church and then on to Hanley. Many pottery and related industry buildings and businesses thrived on Bournes Bank. A school, an ice skating rink and two cinemas found their home on this unassuming road.

Burslem - Packhorse Lane - the lifeline of the Potteries.

the history of Burslem Cemetery

A walk around Burslem Cemetery - Burslem Cemetery opened in 1879 and covers approximately 11.4 hectares (about 28 acres) when it was opened it was intended to be a "a recreation park, to be used for walking, riding and driving" as well as a cemetery and at least a third of the land was taken up with the lodges, chapel, walks & drives. Only about five and a half acres was laid out for burials.

Burslem on the Potteries Loop Line

Burslem & the Loop Line in depth - On the loop line between Tunstall and Hanley were the stations at Burslem and Cobridge. Both of these stations were alongside or in the respective parks. On Thursday, July 21st, 1870, the ceremony of the cutting of the first sod took place in a very unostentatious manner at Burslem.

Dalehall, Burslem  "Church met its Waterloo with buried treasure"

Hanley

Hanley got there first in size and quality - commerce in Hanley  from Huntbach's and Bratt and Dyke's to the Piccadilly Shopping Arcade. 

Hanley in detail - In the late seventeenth century, Hanley consisted of two small hamlets known as Hanley Upper Green (or just Upper Green) and Hanley Lower Green (or just Lower Green). Upper Green at the junction of Town Road and Keelings Road and Lower Green where Market Square is today.

Hanley - Hanley Lower Green - a collision of roads.

Hanley Green - a bit of a shocker.

Hanley Deep Lane & a lost Chartist.

the history of Hanley Cemetery

Hanley on the Potteries Loop Line

Old Town Road, Hanley - "a rump of road that leads nowhere."

Old Town Road, Hanley - High Street, Hanley ran from Market Square, past St. John's Church, to Providence Square at what was Upper Hanley at the top end of Northwood Road. In the early 1950's High Street was renamed Town Road (this was because there were about 12 "High Streets" in the Potteries).

Pall Mall, Hanley - London locations were used to symbolise local pride.

Pall Mall, Hanley - As early as 1818 Pall Mall existed as New Street, Shelton. Although now a desolated street at one time it was a busy place with a large number of public buildings.......The Free Library, the North Staffs. Technical and Art Museum, the Government School of Art, the Potteries Mechanics’ Institution, and the Theatre Royal were all situated in Pall Mall.

A walk around Hanley Cemetery -"Having secured a site (in 1858), the Council offered premiums for the two best designs for chapels, and for laying out the grounds. No less than sixty-five architects, residing in various parts of the country competed, and several designs for the arrangement of the grounds were also sent in."

Stoke

Stoke Road, Howard Place & Snow Hill - 'This road well travelled deserves a second look'.

Winton Square - the best face of the Potteries.

A photo walk across Stoke Fields to Winton's Wood - the parish of St. Simon and St. Jude (Hanley), the area around Staffordshire University. Winton's Wood and Poxon's field.

Trent Vale, probably the most important place in Stoke-on-Trent - From its boundary with the City General Hospital the geography of Trent Vale is shaped like a triangle with Springfields and Penkhull in the north falling to the Trent Valley through Boothen and Oakhill.

Stoke-upon-Trent, is as it was, motionless - Historically Stoke was an important stockade and an inland port as far as the currents of the River Trent could reach, and its physical outlook really does have more going for it than any of the other five towns that make up Stoke-on-Trent. So why does Stoke have such a hard time with its identity?

Fenton

Fenton - the centre of the universe? Where is Fenton? It is nowhere unless like Stan Bate you believe it to be the centre of the universe.

A circular walk around Fenton - Exploring the buildings, potworks, coal mines and the Baker family who built and shaped much of Fenton.

Fenton Park

A walk around Fenton Park - One of the later of the City parks - Fenton park was opened in 1924 on the site of Broadfield Colliery at Fenton Low, it was extended in 1957.

Lane Delph - following Roman Road is a route back in time.

Lane Delph in detail - The name "Delph" means a digging, such as a claypit or quarry. 'Drowned in a delph' appears as a cause of death in Staffordshire parish registers.- Lane Delph was one of the earliest populated areas in Fenton and home to a number of early pottery works and families.

Lower Lane - majestic church symbol of towering aspirations.

Lower Lane in detail - Lower Lane lay on the boundary of Little and Great Fenton It covers the area at the junction of the road now known as City Road (previously High Street West and east) and a track which is the current Glebedale Road.

Grove Road in detail - Early potters walked the track from Lower Lane to Lane Delph: It is not at all fanciful to speculate that a number of famous and early potters journeyed along the track which is today known as Whieldons Road, Grove Road and Duke Street.

Longton

Lane End - 'Longton is Longton and Lane End will never be'.

the history of Longton Cemetery.

A walk around Longton cemetery - Following a competition in 1872 for the design of the lay-out, Longton Cemetery opened in 1877 and covers approximately 7.4 hectares (about 21 acres).  It has been extended a total of  four times.

Longton is like a tureen of soup - it’s a big mix of essential ingredients added over a long time... but...

Normacot Road, Longton - Normacot Road was once an important thoroughfare from Normacot to Longton Town. Many of the houses and works were demolished between the 1930's and the 1970's and the opening of the A50 road in 1997 meant that the end of Normacot Road was sealed off - so now it is a road to nowhere.

Dresden & the Longton Freehold Land Society - A walk round the Dresden Estate showing how it came into existence in the middle of the 19th C and the development during the Victorian period.

Trentham

Trentham - Okay so long as the cuckoos keep themselves to themselves.

Newcastle-under-Lyme

Newcastle and the Queen's Gardens

A walk around the Queen's Gardens and Marsh Estate - The borough owned the waste land known as The Marsh - The Marsh, consisting in 1782 of 23 acres, was situated at the east end of the town in the area now occupied by Nelson Place, Queen Street, King Street, and Brunswick Street.

Dimsdale - mystery of Roman Road is just par-for-the-course.

Bradwell - Sneyds never knew how valuable their land was.

Newcastle-under-Lyme Junction Canal  "Raising interest in canal lift idea was a problem"

Sir Nigel Gresley's Canal, (Newcastle-under-Lyme Upper Canal) "Tracing a canal via blackberries"

Villages & Districts of the Potteries Conurbation

Abbey Hulton 

The monks of Hulton Abbey

the monks of Hulton Abbey & Sneyd Green

Hulton Abbey to Ruston Grange - this article examines Hulton Abbey, the trackway along Sneyd Street and the monks farmland at Ruston Grange.

Adderley Green

Anchor Road and Adderly Green - the start of a walk from Meir to Tunstall.

Ash Bank

Ash Estate, Ash Bank - 'old lanes tell own story of area's hidden history'.

The Ash Estate was a strategic location in the mid nineteenth century because the Bridle Path was the route of coal carts from Hanley Hayes Colliery to the Hanley-Cheadle Turnpike Road. The exploitation of the coal seams under the estate - reflected in the names of the fields: "Coal Pit Field" and "Slack Pit Field" — helped to pay for the construction of the new Ash Hall estate buildings and the enlargement of the estate.

Bagnall

Bagnall still retains a strong Elizabethan quintessence

Basford

the original Basford Bank -  known as Fowlea Bank.

Fowlea Bank, Basford - In the Etruria valley runs the Fowlea Brook, the turnpike road (now Etruria Road) to the left climbs a ridge, rising 500ft to Basford. Basford Bank as we know it now was not built until 1820, prior to that the turnpike road ran along a steep route "Fowlea Bank" which still exists today behind the houses fronting Basford Bank.

Bentilee & Berryhill

Bentilee - 'Sunshine Houses'

Berryhill - the lungs of the Potteries.

Ford Hayes Farm - Visit to childhood home of radical Methodist 'Bourne'

Birchenwood

Birchenwood on the Loop Line in depth - Birchenwood was the largest industrial site that the Tunstall and Newchapel area has ever known.

Blurton

Blurton - hunting land for the Dukes of Sutherland - According to an 1851 local gazetteer Blurton was ‘a pleasantly situated village above Trentham including the Lightwood Forest, the hamlets of Cocknage, Cold Ridding, and Spratslade.’

Bradwell

Bradwell - Sneyds never knew how valuable their land was.

Bradwell in detail - "There is a much-admired hanging wood, called Bradwall Wood, belonging to Walter Sneyd, Esq."

Brownhills

Brownhills: - "Brownhills is situate upon the main Turnpike Road (from Burslem to Lawton,) at the junction of the Branch which comes from Newcastle through Longport; and is at nearly equal distances from the market-places of Tunstall and Burslem; which are rather more than a mile apart. It is within the township of Burslem, which extends, north-westward, as far as an inn called High gate, close up to the town of Tunstall."

Brownhills - Ghost of drunk doctor still haunts high school.

Caverswall

Caverswall - visit before the next Ice Age comes.

Chell Heath

Chell Heath - that the frontier spirit lives on

Cobridge

Cobridge in detail - The Road from Hanley to Burslem

Cobridge: A Victorian Suburb - Rushton Grange, the development of Cobridge as a community, the churches and potworks - also the home of the novelist Arnold Bennett.

Cobridge - the changing face of Cobridge.

Cobridge - the Victorian suburb en-route to Burslem.

Cobridge on the Loop Line

Cobridge on the Loop Line in depth - In Bennett's novel Cobridge was referred to as "Bleakridge" - The introduction of steam trams and then in 1873 the opening of the Loop Line with a station at Cobridge made the area accessible and it became a desirable residential area "It had also been predicted that even Hanbridge [Hanley] men would come to live at Bleakridge [Cobridge] now."

Dalehall

Dalehall in detail - Dalehall - a district of Burslem, arranged either side of Newcastle Street. Nowadays Dalehall, although preceding it in antiquity has been subsumed into the general area known as Middleport. The Burslem family were living at Burslem by the end of the 13th century. By the end of the 16th century their Burslem house was Dale Hall.

Dalehall, Burslem  "Church met its Waterloo with buried treasure"

Dimsdale

Dimsdale - mystery of Roman Road is just par-for-the-course.

Dresden

The bridle path, Dresden - a short trip off the beaten path.

Moneto House, Ricardo Street, Dresden.

Bridle Path, Dresden - When the Longton Freehold Land Society bought the land a bridle path leading from Longton to Trentham ran across the land. This was incorporated into the building plan as a pedestrian road between Belgrave Road and Ricardo Street.  Following this bridle path will take us on a walk through the history of British social reform politics.

Dresden & the Longton Freehold Land Society - A walk round the Dresden Estate showing how it came into existence in the middle of the 19th C and the development during the Victorian period.

Etruria

Etruria in detail - "This name merits individual entry because of its unusual, and possibly unique, origins. Etruria is a comparatively modern name, under 250 years old. Josiah Wedgwood's house, built here in 1760, was named Etruria Hall, taken from an ancient region of Italy, roughly modern Tuscany.."

Etruria: Josiah Wedgwood & Etruria - Creation of Etruria in the 18thC. and subsequent transformation of the area in 19thC.

Etruria - a factory in a garden.

Etruria and its park

A walk around Etruria Park - "With the disappearance of the Etruria Grove and, later, the final decay of all vegetation in Etruria, it was decided to open a park there! On Thursday, September 29th, 1904, the opening ceremony was performed and the Etruscans at last had their own park.."

Etruria on the Potteries Loop Line

Lord Street (Etruria Old Road) - Josiah Wedgwood set an example by building houses for his workers. There may have been an element of philanthropy here, but it was also a necessity if skilled men were to be enticed to Etruria from Burslem. The terraced houses stretched along both sides of the main road from Etruria to Basford Bank.

Etruria: Last day of Shelton Steel Works - A walk along the Trent & Mersey Canal on the 27th April 2000. In its heyday the works stretched across Etruria Valley to what is now Festival Park in Hanley. It had a 10,000-strong workforce, five coal mines, steelworks and rolling mills, blast furnaces and a bi-products factory.

Etruria: Hard times they must have been in Etruria in those days  - Can you imagine the view Josiah Wedgwood had when he looked out from Cob Ridge above the smoky potteries of Burslem and Shelton on the day he purchased Ridge House estate? - and what of the new Etruscans?

Foley

Foley - half remembered name hints at former glories.

Foley in detail - Foley Place is near the east end of King Street and was probably built in the 1830's or 1840's and is an example of middle-class housing. About 1750 John Barker, one of Thomas Whieldon's ovenmen in 1749, began to make shining black ware and salt-glazed stone-ware at the Row Houses near the Foley.

Goldenhill

The fading village of Goldenhill - "I went to Stoke once. I’ve never been to Longton. I wouldn’t like it there, it’s too far away."

Goldenhill on the Potteries Loop Line

Goldenhill and Pitts Hill on the Loop Line in depth - The loop line Tunstall to Goldenhill opened to both passengers and goods on the 1st of October 1874 and the section from Goldenhill to Kidsgrove over a year later on the 15th of November 1875.

Harecastle

Harecastle - a tale of two tunnels

Hartshill

Hartshill - 99% of us will visit. There was a time when it was essential to have a bit of class to live in Hartshill. But to be buried there you really had to mind your place.

Colin Minton Campbell & Hartshill Cemetery - The Municipal cemetery reflects Victorian society class divisions. The cemetery is divided into 4 classes for different denominations.

Heron Cross

Grove Road, Heron Cross - 'old D-road transports us back three centuries'

Grove Road, Heron Cross, Great Fenton - It is not at all fanciful to speculate that a number of famous and early potters journeyed along the track which is today known as Whieldons Road, Grove Road and Duke Street.

Grove Road in detail - Early potters walked the track from Lower Lane to Lane Delph: It is not at all fanciful to speculate that a number of famous and early potters journeyed along the track which is today known as Whieldons Road, Grove Road and Duke Street.

Howard Place

Stoke Road, Howard Place & Snow Hill - 'This road well travelled deserves a second look'

Hulton Abbey

The monks of Hulton Abbey

the monks of Hulton Abbey & Sneyd Green

Hulton Abbey to Ruston Grange - this article examines Hulton Abbey, the trackway along Sneyd Street and the monks farmland at Ruston Grange.

Kidsgrove

It’s an interesting town Kidsgrove filled with interesting people - Kidsgrove is full of quirky stories, most very well documented, and inhabited by people who act with unconventional behaviour. It is a place where no one seems to be in charge – where management and influence resides in the hands of outsiders.

the historic boatman's walk to Kidsgrove

Kidsgrove - 'getting into the spirit of a truly historic town'

Kidsgrove on the Potteries Loop Line

Kidsgrove on the Loop Line in depth - There were two stations on the now closed Loop Line namely Kidsgrove, opened November 15, 1875 and Kidsgrove Market Street Halt opened 1905.

Lane Delph

Lane Delph - following Roman Road is a route back in time.

Lane Delph in detail - The name "Delph" means a digging, such as a claypit or quarry. 'Drowned in a delph' appears as a cause of death in Staffordshire parish registers.- Lane Delph was one of the earliest populated areas in Fenton and home to a number of early pottery works and families.

Lane End

Lane End - "Ask most people to tell you the difference between Longton and Lane End and they will say Lane End is just another name for Longton. And yet nothing could be further from the truth."

Lane End in detail - Confusion often arises over the location and names of  Lane End and Longton. Originally they were two separate and contiguous townships which were incorporated in the of Borough of Longton in 1865.

Longport

Longport: John Davenport & Longport - The creation of Longport (by the Trent & Mersey canal) between 1760-mid 19thC.

Lower Lane

Lower Lane - majestic church symbol of towering aspirations.

Lower Lane in detail - Lower Lane lay on the boundary of Little and Great Fenton It covers the area at the junction of the road now known as City Road (previously High Street West and east) and a track which is the current Glebedale Road.

Meir

Meir - The changing face of Meir and a pub with treasures aplenty.

Meir in detail - The village of Meir has always been a gateway in to North Staffordshire and the Potteries area..... in Roman times it was situated on the Roman road Rykeneld Street which ran from Derby/Uttoxeter, through Meir to Chesterton and then onto Chester.

Middleport

Middleport - a place suffering from unfilled promises

Middleport: Burgess & Leigh - the 'Model' Victorian Potworks. - A tour of a working Victorian potworks - opened in 1888, famous world over for Burleigh ware. A listed building and rescued from the receiver in 1999.

Milton

Milton - 'up enders' and 'down enders'

Moddershall

Moddershall to me looks utterly timeless

Mount Pleasant, Fenton

Mount Pleasant doesn’t fit as well today as it did

Normacot

Normacot - an ancient and important history which dates back to the Domesday Book.

Normacot Road, Longton - Normacot Road was once an important thoroughfare from Normacot to Longton Town. Many of the houses and works were demolished between the 1930's and the 1970's and the opening of the A50 road in 1997 meant that the end of Normacot Road was sealed off - so now it is a road to nowhere.

Normacot - “I wouldn’t live anywhere else,”

Normacot Road, Longton - road to nowhere links past to future.

Normacot in detail - Normacot has been a site of habitation and activity for around 3 to 4,000 years. It was recorded in the 1087 Domesday Book as part of the "Land of Richard Forester"

Northwood

Northwood Park

A walk around Northwood Park - "The opening of Northwood Park by the Mayor of Hanley, Alderman T. Hampton, took place on May 23rd, 1907, after a procession from Hanley Town Hall. Although the park was then incomplete the opening was put forward to take place on the day celebrating the jubilee of the Incorporation of the Borough of Hanley."

Northwood - good night out with wine, women and song?

Norton

Norton - in the Labour fold - Harry Brown, former councillor and Labour stalwart.

Penkhull

Penkhull: Josiah Spode & the Mount Estate - A look at The Mount - home and estate created by Josiah Spode II (1754-1827), master potter, of Stoke and also to examine the relationship between the estate and the village of Penkhull.

Pitts Hill

Pitts Hill on the Potteries Loop Line

Goldenhill and Pitts Hill on the Loop Line in depth - The loop line Tunstall to Goldenhill opened to both passengers and goods on the 1st of October 1874 and the section from Goldenhill to Kidsgrove over a year later on the 15th of November 1875.

Rushton Grange

the monks of Hulton Abbey & Rushton

Hulton Abbey to Ruston Grange - this article examines Hulton Abbey, the track-way along Sneyd Street and the monks farmland at Ruston Grange.

Sneyd Green

the monks of Hulton Abbey & Sneyd Green

Hulton Abbey to Ruston Grange - this article examines Hulton Abbey, the track-way along Sneyd Street and the monks farmland at Ruston Grange.

Sneyd Green - if you go down the wrong street you’ll miss it

Shelton

Stoke Road, Howard Place & Snow Hill - this road well travelled deserves a second look.

John Ridgway & Shelton. - Walk around the Howard and Cauldon Place area of Shelton in the 1850-1890 period. The Ridgway pottery family and the development of the streets and houses.

Smallthorne

‘Smothern Rindabite’  - the Devil’s Island

Trubshaw Cross

Trubshaw Cross in detail - Trubshaw Cross is the upper part of Longport, situated on the junction of Newcastle Street and Davenport Road - it was an important point on the packhorse lanes from Newcastle-under-Lyme to Burslem and Tunstall.

Trubshaw Cross - major gateway provides a glimpse into cities past

Werrington

Ash Estate, Ash Bank - 'old lanes tell own story of area's hidden history'

The Ash Estate was a strategic location in the mid nineteenth century because the Bridle Path was the route of coal carts from Hanley Hayes Colliery to the Hanley-Cheadle Turnpike Road. The exploitation of the coal seams under the estate - reflected in the names of the fields: "Coal Pit Field" and "Slack Pit Field" — helped to pay for the construction of the new Ash Hall estate buildings and the enlargement of the estate.

Werrington starts to make sense: Armshead, Salters, Washerwall

Wetley Rocks

Climbing to the top of Wetley Rocks is no easy task

Winton's Wood

A photo walk across Stoke Fields to Winton's Wood - the parish of St. Simon and St. Jude (Hanley), the area around Staffordshire University. Winton's Wood and Poxon's field.

Winton Square - the best face of the Potteries.

Winton Fields area in detail - Winton's Field and Winton's Wood were part of the Glebe lands of the Stoke Church. Nowadays the area is home to Staffordshire University buildings, Federation House, Stoke Railway Station and the North Stafford Hotel. - Winton Square has 8 listed buildings and is a Stoke-on-Trent conservation area

People

Adams family of potters and Greengates, Tunstall - pioneers of North Staffordshire pottery industry.

Bate - Stan and Marge Bate. As councillors they have represented their community for a cumulative 60 years since their arrival in Fenton in 1954.

Hugh Bourne - Ford Hayes Farm - a visit to childhood home of radical Methodist 'Bourne'.

Idwal Thomas Bowen - retired coal miner living on Bentilee.

Brindley - James Brindley - bad planning or pioneer of transport engineering?

Brown - Harry Brown former councillor for Norton and Labour stalwart

Clarice Cliff - in the footsteps of Clarice Cliff

Canals

Brindley - James Brindley - bad planning or pioneer of transport engineering?

Newcastle-under-Lyme Canal  "in search of a doomed waterway which disappeared years age"

Newcastle-under-Lyme Canal  "canal hero who gave his life to save a drowning girl"

Newcastle-under-Lyme Canal  "canal stories flow from memories of waterway"

Newcastle-under-Lyme Junction Canal  "Raising interest in canal lift idea was a problem"

The Newcastle-under-Lyme Junction Canal was proposed in 1789 as a third canal, one of its main promoters was Nigel Gresleys' son.

Sir Nigel Gresley's Canal, (Newcastle-under-Lyme Upper Canal) "Tracing a canal via blackberries"

Trent and Mersey Canal - the Harecastle tunnels of Brindley and Telford.

the historic boatman's walk to Kidsgrove