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Heron Cross is a suburb situated between Blurton and Fenton, in Stoke on Trent. It has a pharmacy, two corner shops, two pubs, two hairdressers, a park and a pot bank. It has two main streets, Grove Road and Heron Street. Heron Cross is a home to about 1,000 people. Two schools serve the area:
Heron Cross Primary School, a primary school for children aged 3 to 11 (nursery to year six). Glebedale School, an independent school for children aged 7 and 16 with special needs
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Heron Cross Pottery
Heron Cross Pottery was a pottery manufactory built in 1886 in Fenton, Stoke-on-Trent, England, by the firm Hines Brothers (William Hines and Thomas Hines), particularly known for making the classic brown earthenware teapots and tea services for the London Midland and Scottish Railway. A portion of it is now a Grade II listed building. The business was taken over in 1907 by Grimwades, and became the Kensington Pottery in Hanley in about 1922; this pottery continued until 1937.
During the Second World War, the building was requisitioned and used for storage of both food and munitions.
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Fenton railway station
Fenton railway station opened in 1864 on the North Staffordshire Railway line to Derby. It closed in 1961. It was in Heron Cross and was one of two stations in the area, the other being Fenton Manor.
The buildings and platforms have been demolished although the site itself is still identifiable, occupied by a communications mast.
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Christ Church, Fenton
Christ Church is an Anglican church in Fenton, Staffordshire, England. It is in the parish of Stoke-upon-Trent and Fenton, and in the Diocese of Lichfield. The building is Grade II listed.
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Fenton, Staffordshire
Fenton is a town in Stoke-on-Trent, in the ceremonial county of Staffordshire, England. It is one of the six towns that amalgamated with Hanley, Tunstall, Burslem, Longton and Stoke-upon-Trent to form the county borough of Stoke-on-Trent in 1910, later raised to city status in 1925. Fenton is often referred to as "the Forgotten Town", because it was omitted by local author, Arnold Bennett, from many of his works based in the area, including one of his most famous novels, Anna of the Five Towns.