These variant meanings included dairy farm, secondary or dependent place or farm, summer pasture, crossing place, meeting place and place of worship. Stoke derives from the Old English stoc, a word that at first meant little more than place, but which subsequently gained more specific – but divergent – connotations. The name Stoke is taken from the town of Stoke-upon-Trent, the original ancient parish, with other settlements being chapelries. Formerly a primarily industrial conurbation, it is now a centre for service industries and distribution centres.
Stoke-on-Trent is the home of the pottery industry in England and known as The Potteries. Hanley is the primary commercial centre the other four towns which form the city are Burslem, Tunstall, Longton and Fenton. It took its name from Stoke-upon-Trent where the main centre of government and the principal railway station in the district were located. Stoke is polycentric, having been formed by the federation of six towns in 1910. It is the largest settlement in Staffordshire and is surrounded by the towns of Newcastle-under-Lyme, Alsager, Kidsgrove, Biddulph and Stone, which form a conurbation around the city. In 2019, the city had an estimated population of 256,375. Stoke-on-Trent (often abbreviated to Stoke) is a city and unitary authority area in Staffordshire, England, with an area of 36 square miles (93 km 2).
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