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 in this branch of manufacture, which is now perhaps not inferior to china itself. Josiah Wedgewood here cut the first clod of the Trent and Mersey Canal, a work which has been of such infinite importance to the district.

and are portions of the parish of Burslem, and their population is included in the Burslem return.

, a market town, and a hamlet, forming together an extensive township, 4 miles from Newcastle; Population, 9,608. Market days, Wednesday and Saturday; fairs, Feb. 14, May 20, July 23, Nov. 1. The church was built in 1764, rebuilt in 1795, and enlarged in 1828; it is a chapel-of-ease to Stoke-upon-Trent; the living is a perpetual curacy in the gift of trustees. A new church is building under the direction of the Parliamentary Commissioners; there are also places of worship for methodists, independents, baptists, and Roman Catholics, and there are two Free Schools. This most prosperous town has risen into opulence within a comparatively few years.

, or, a market town and liberty in the parish of Walstanton; it is situated on an eminence four miles N. by E. from Newcastle; market on Saturdays; Population, 3673, chiefly employed in the manufacture of bricks, tiles, and porcelain, and in its neighbourhood are fine veins of coal, clay, and iron ore. The Grand Trunk Canal passes within half a mile of the town, and the great double Tunnel, which runs for two miles under Hare Castle