The River Trent is the border between the City of Stoke-on-Trent and Stafford Borough for most of its southerly flow past Trentham.

Their private Sutherland Mausoleum is a prominent landmark next to the A34 road and the only Grade I listed building in the city.

Trentham was not one of the historic "six towns" which joined to form a city in the original Federation of Stoke-on-Trent in 1910.

The grounds were also used to station thousands of French troops who had fled Europe at the fall of France in 1940.

[3] In 1993, it was the site of protests by the North Staffordshire Miners' Wives Action Group, including round-the-clock camps and the occupation of Trentham pit by three women who chained themselves to machinery inside the mine.