Clayton Wood Training Ground

Clayton Wood is the training ground and academy of EFL Championship club Stoke City.

1. Development

In January 2009, Stoke City unveiled plans to redevelop their training ground at an initial cost of £5 million. Stoke City were given planning permission by the Stoke-on-Trent City Council to construct the facility in May 2009; Stoke had previously been renting the site from the Michelin Tyre company. The facility was designed by AFL architects who had previously designed Chelsea's Cobham Training Centre and Everton's Finch Farm. The centre was built in time for the start of the 2010–11 season. In April 2012, Stoke announced £6 million expansions plans in order to meet the category one criteria in the Elite Player Performance Plan. In November 2015, further plans were announced to expand the facility. In summer of 2024 plans were unveiled for a £12 million improvement to Clayton Wood. The expansion works began in November 2024 and will included the construction of a new pavilion.

1. References

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Lyme Brook

Lyme Brook is a tributary stream of the River Trent, which flows through Newcastle-under-Lyme, and the outlying areas of Stoke-on-Trent in Staffordshire, England.

Landmark

Trent Vale

Trent Vale is a suburb of Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England, bordered on the south by Hanford, to the west by Clayton, to the north by Newcastle-under-Lyme, to the southeast by Oakhill and Penkhull to the northeast. The Springfields and Trent Vale ward population at the 2011 census was 6,816. The area is home to the Clayton Wood Training Ground, owned by Stoke City FC. Employment is provided locally by the Royal Stoke University Hospital. St. John the Evangelist Church was erected in the early Gothic style in 1843. The architect was Philip Wooton. The A34 road runs from north to south through the centre of Trent Vale.

Church Hospital

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Oak Hill, Staffordshire

Oak Hill is an area in Stoke-on-Trent.

Landmark Neighbourhood

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St Joseph's College, Stoke-on-Trent

St Joseph's College is a coeducational grammar school located in Trent Vale, Stoke on Trent, Staffordshire. The school's oldest and original building in this location is a Grade II listed structure which was previously a residential property before it was bought by the Christian Brothers in 1931.

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