Museum · Stoke-on-Trent · Staffordshire

Gladstone Pottery Museum

Gladstone Pottery Museum is an industrial museum. Look for it within Stoke-on-Trent’s built-up area. A short trip away is Caverswall Castle, 3.8 km off, the first of 30 within 15 km.

Photo: Gladstone Pottery Museum, MartynDavies (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Where

In Stoke-on-Trent

inside the built-up area

How well known

Top 28%

#2,392 of 8,556 places we list

Warmest months

Jun–Sep

highs of 17–20°C

In brief

Museum in Stoke-on-Trent

Inside Stoke-on-Trent

Gladstone Pottery Museum is inside Stoke-on-Trent’s built-up area, with 5 more places to visit within 5 km. Towns near it ↓

Written from OpenStreetMap, Wikidata, the ONS built-up areas and Met Office 1991–2020 averages.

When to go

Seasons and weather

Expect highs of 17–20°C in Stoke-on-Trent from June to September.

Jan7° / 1°73 mm

Feb7° / 1°64 mm

Mar10° / 3°59 mm

Apr13° / 4°57 mm

May16° / 7°66 mm

Jun19° / 10°71 mm

Jul20° / 12°79 mm

Aug20° / 12°80 mm

Sep17° / 10°75 mm

Oct13° / 7°91 mm

Nov10° / 4°81 mm

Dec7° / 2°90 mm

Green months are the warmest. Typical afternoon highs and night lows in Stoke-on-Trent, and rain in a month. Met Office HadUK-Grid 1991–2020 averages for Stoke-on-Trent. Opening times change through the year: check before you go. Stoke-on-Trent’s full climate →

About

Gladstone Pottery Museum

Its Wikipedia coverage spans 3 languages.

Type: Museum
Wikipedias: Covered in 3 languages
Town: in Stoke-on-Trent
Official site: stokemuseums.org.uk/gpm

Facts: Wikidata (CC0) and OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors).

Plan your visit

Entrance fees

EntryA fee is charged

Hours and entry: OpenStreetMap contributors. They change through the year: check its site before you go.

The map

Gladstone Pottery Museum is in orange, with the places near it numbered as below.

Towns near it

Staying near Gladstone Pottery Museum

Stoke-on-Trent is the biggest of the 6 bases nearby (260,560 people). Nearest first, every town here counts it among its places to visit.

1 · It’s in town

Stoke-on-Trent

260,560 people · 28 places to visit

2 · 3.1 km east of it

Cookshill

311 people · 5 places to visit

3 · 3.4 km southeast of it

Blythe Bridge and Forsbrook

6,798 people · 6 places to visit

4 · 3.8 km northeast of it

Werrington

6,012 people · 10 places to visit

Compare the 6 towns

Town	Where Gladstone Pottery Museum is	People	Places to visit
Stoke-on-Trent	It’s in town	260,560	28
Cookshill	3.1 km east of it	311	5
Blythe Bridge and Forsbrook	3.4 km southeast of it	6,798	6
Werrington	3.8 km northeast of it	6,012	10
Barlaston	4.1 km southwest of it	1,418	3
Newcastle-under-Lyme	7.8 km northwest of it	76,511	21

Make a day of it

Next door to Gladstone Pottery Museum

Our list has 30 more within 15 km, among them 3 museums, 2 castles and a heritage railway.

CastleCaverswall Castle3.8 km away 2

Heritage railwayFoxfield Railway4.7 km away 3

CastleHeighley Castle14 km away 4

MuseumPotteries Museum and Art Gallery5.1 km away 5

MuseumEtruria Industrial Museum5.4 km away 6

Historic houseWhitmore Hall10 km away 7

MuseumMiddleport Pottery8 km away 8

Water parkWaterworld6.4 km away

Within 15 km, close and well known first. Numbers match the map.

Planning a visit to Gladstone Pottery Museum

Where is Gladstone Pottery Museum?

Gladstone Pottery Museum is in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, inside the town’s built-up area.

What is Gladstone Pottery Museum?

Industrial museum in Staffordshire, England.

When is the best time to visit Gladstone Pottery Museum?

June to September are the warmest months in Stoke-on-Trent, with afternoon highs of 17–20°C (Met Office 1991–2020 averages).

What else is there to see near Gladstone Pottery Museum?

Within 15 km: Caverswall Castle (3.8 km), Foxfield Railway (4.7 km), Heighley Castle (14 km) and Potteries Museum and Art Gallery (5.1 km).

Places: OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, Open Database Licence) and Wikidata (CC0), placed in the ONS 2022 built-up area (Open Government Licence v3.0). Visitor counts are the latest Wikidata gives, with their year.

Photos: each place’s Wikidata image, from Wikimedia Commons under the licence below (our copy, resized).

Photo credits (9)

Gladstone Pottery Museum: MartynDavies, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
Caverswall Castle: Samuel Hall Carter (1800-1889), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
Foxfield Railway: Chris Allen, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
Heighley Castle: Peter Styles, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
Potteries Museum and Art Gallery: Leereyno at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
Etruria Industrial Museum: Ashley Dace, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
Whitmore Hall: Andy and Hilary, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
Middleport Pottery: Andrew Woodvine (awo…, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
Waterworld: Frombowen, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons

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