Stoke Ferry Shelford [Map] is a former crossing point on the River Trent that gives its name to Shelford [Map].

The River Trent rises on Biddulph Moor, Staffordshire [Map] and flows, in a great horseshoe through, or near, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire [Map], Stone, Staffordshire [Map], Essex Bridge [Map], Bishton Hall, Staffordshire [Map], Colwich, Staffordshire [Map] passing St Michael and All Angels Church, Colwich [Map], Rugeley, Staffordshire [Map], Kings Bromley, Staffordshire [Map], Alrewas, Staffordshire [Map], Burton upon Trent, Staffordshire [Map], Newton Solney [Map], Repton [Map], under Swarkestone Bridge [Map], Sawley [Map], Nottingham [Map], Holme Pierrepoint [Map], Stoke Ferry Shelford [Map], under Gunthorpe Bridge [Map], past Gunthorpe Lock [Map], Hoveringham Nottingham [Map], Newark on Trent [Map], Knaith [Map], Dunham Bridge [Map], Sutton on Trent [Map], the Isle of Axholme [Map] and Gainsborough [Map] before joining the Humber Estuary at Trent Falls [Map].