Formation of Stoke-on-Trent

Date: March 31, 1910 • Location: Stoke-on-Trent, United Kingdom

Six English towns amalgamated to form a single county borough called Stoke-on-Trent, the first union of its type.

The federation of Stoke-on-Trent was the 1910 amalgamation of the six Staffordshire Potteries towns of Burslem, Tunstall, Stoke-upon-Trent, Hanley, Fenton and Longton into the single county borough of Stoke-on-Trent. The federation was one of the largest mergers of local authorities, involving the greatest number of previously separate urban authorities, to take place in England between the 19th century and the 1960s. The 1910 federation was the culmination of a process of urban growth and municipal change that started in the early 19th century.