The Potteries: Wedgwood, Gladstone and Middleport
West Midlands, England
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The Potteries: Wedgwood, Gladstone and Middleport
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Stoke-on-Trent is the Potteries, England's ceramic heartland. At Longton, the Gladstone Pottery Museum keeps a coal-fired pottery works with its bottle kilns; at Burslem, Middleport Pottery of 1888 still makes pots; the World of Wedgwood is at Barlaston; and the Potteries Museum & Art Gallery in Hanley holds a Spitfire and pieces of the Staffordshire Hoard.
Required Activities
1
of 4
Visit the World of Wedgwood at Barlaston
2
of 4
Tour Gladstone Pottery Museum in Longton, the museum of a coal-fired pottery works with its bottle kilns
3
of 4
See Middleport Pottery in Burslem, the working Victorian pottery of 1888
4
of 4
Visit the Potteries Museum & Art Gallery in Hanley, with its Spitfire and pieces of the Staffordshire Hoard
Visit the World of Wedgwood at Barlaston
Tour Gladstone Pottery Museum in Longton, the museum of a coal-fired pottery works with its bottle kilns
See Middleport Pottery in Burslem, the working Victorian pottery of 1888
Visit the Potteries Museum & Art Gallery in Hanley, with its Spitfire and pieces of the Staffordshire Hoard
Before you go
The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery closed for a refit in December 2025 and was due to reopen in March 2026; check it is open before you go.
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