AudaTours Stoke-on-Trent Audio Tour: Fired Earth
Stoke Minster, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, ST1 1RZ
This self-guided audio walk has 8 stops and begins at Stoke Minster. Follow the route in the app, listening as you walk between the church, the canal towpath, Town Hall, Spode Museum Trust, the North Stafford Hotel, Penkhull Square, the Herbert Minton Building and Stoke-on-Trent railway station.
The tour takes around 1 hour in total including the walk.
It traces the everyday labour that kept Stoke proper working: throwers and paintresses, flint-grinders and kiln-firers, the navvies who cut the canal, the boatmen who hauled cargo through Harecastle, and the railwaymen who moved finished ware across the country. Along the way, the route passes Potter’s Rot, workers’ housing in Penkhull Square, the named war dead on the North Staffordshire Railway memorial, and the memorial school linked to Herbert Minton’s workers’ skills. It is a walk through the streets and sites that made the Potteries world-famous, with the focus kept firmly on the people whose names rarely made the plaques.
Timings
Available anytime
Location & directions
Stoke Minster, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, ST1 1RZ
- Directions:
- Starts at Stoke Minster, Stoke-on-Trent, visits 8 stops, and finishes at Stoke-on-Trent railway station, Winton Square.
Booking information
- Pre-booking requirement:
- Book on day
- Booking conditions:
- Visit the booking link and click the "Get Tour" button to receive a redemption code. Follow the link to download the AudaTours app, enter your redemption code, and you're ready to go.
- Booking email:
- [email protected]
- Booking website:
- https://audatours.com/tour/united-kingdom/stoke/p-2379-fired-earth
Accessibility details
This is an outdoor, self-guided audio walking tour. The route follows public streets and pavements and does not include access to the interior of any of the sites — they are to be admired from the outside. Please wear comfortable shoes and dress for the weather.
Additional information
You can start the tour whenever suits you during the festival and pause, resume or revisit it at any point — the route plays at your own pace from your phone. Once redeemed, the tour stays in your AudaTours library so you can come back to it any time. Headphones (or one earbud if walking with a companion) are recommended, and the tour works best in daylight hours.
- Estimated duration:
- 2 hour(s)
