Talk:Stoke-upon-Trent

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I removed this bit because it doesn't make sense:

Stoke-upon-Trent has a different meaning to Stoke-on-Trent; the origin is from Old English stocc "logs, wood" and not Old English stoc "outlying farmstead".

How can the two names have different meanings? The city was named after the town! Perhaps there's confusion as to where the name "Stoke" originated, but you can't say that Stoke-on-Trent and Stoke-upon-Trent mean different things. 213.249.235.86 13:37, 5 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I'm from stoke and i've never heard the Town of Stoke Refereed to as Stoke Upon Trent, but always as Stoke colloquially and Stoke on Trent formally the city was afterall named after the town where the Civic Offices are. --Lodi01 (talk) 11:44, 6 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Pop Q[edit]

Exactly what is the population of Stoke? Simply south 19:54, 15 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

If you know, pop it in with citation of course, otherwise does it matter? Its mostly noted for its historic past and for being the location of the principal church and the main civic offices of the City of Stoke-on-Trent and also of at least three major potbanks, one of which still produces. NoelWalley 20:03, 15 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]