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 by private benefaction and royal bounty; P.R. £101 9s. 6d., patron, George Tollet, Esq. About a mile from the town are the remains of Healy Castle.

POTTERIES. The populous and interesting district, known under this general designation, is in the hundred of Pirehill and county of Stafford, 7 miles eastward of the Railroad. It extends 10 miles in length and a mile and a half in breadth, and comprises the borough and market-town of Stoke-upon-Trent, and the several town- ships and villages of Hanley, Shelton, Etruria, Burslem with Long-port and Brown-hills, Lane- end with Longton, Tunstal, Lane Delph, Fenton, Cobridge, and their neighbourhoods. The country abounds with coal and clay, which, with its canal intercourse, extending to all parts of the country, make it the most eligible and most prosperous seat of the manufactures for which it has so long been distinguished. We shall give a short account of each of the interesting places of which "The Potteries" is composed.

STOKE-UPON-TRENT is a parish, market-town, and borough (by the Reform Bill); Population, 37,220, having more than doubled since 1801, when it was but 16,414. Market day, Saturday: annual fair, first Monday in August. An. As. Val. £59,553. It is situated, as its name implies, on the River Trent, and the Trent and Mersey Canal passes through it. The parish, including a district of 17 square miles, contains nine townships, four chapelries, and one liberty. It had formerly a very ancient church, dedicated to St.