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BURSLEM

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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 863 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BURSLEM , a See also:

market See also:town of See also:Staffordshire, See also:England, in the See also:Potteries See also:district, 150 M. N.W. from See also:London, on the See also:North Staffordshire railway and the See also:Grand See also:Trunk See also:Canal. Pop. (1891) 31,999; (1901) 38,766. In the 17th See also:century the town was already famous for its manufacture of pottery. Here See also:Josiah See also:Wedgwood was See also:born in 1730, his See also:family having practised the manufacture in this locality for several generations, while he himself began See also:work independently at the See also:Ivy See also:House pottery in 1759. He is commemorated by the Wedgwood See also:Institute, founded in 1863. It comprises a school of See also:art, See also:free library, museum, picture-See also:gallery and the free school founded in 1794. The exterior is richly and peculiarly ornamented, to show the progress of fictile art. The neighbouring towns of Stoke, See also:Hanley and See also:Longton are connected with Burslem by tramways. Burslem is mentioned in Domesday. Previously to 1885 it formed See also:part of the See also:parliamentary See also:borough of Stoke, but it is now included in that of Hanley.

It was included in the municipal borough of Stoke-on-See also:

Trent under an See also:act of 1908.

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