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Places of Interest Stoke-on-Trent: former National Garden Festival leisure
area, bus service to Pottery factories and museums, Etruria
Industrial Museum, moor at Wedgwood Visitor Centre
Stone market town
Shugborough Hall: interior, grounds, rare breeds farm
Gailey Round House
Market Drayton: historic town, ancient Wednesday market
Nantwich: half-timbered buildings
Harecastle Tunnel: built 1827 to replace the original 1777 tunnel
which had no towpath - boatmen had to 'leg it' by lying on the
boat roof and 'walking' the boat through - horses walked over
the top.
Possible Holidays
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