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Originally appearing in Volume V25, Page 951 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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STOKES, See also:SIR G . G. 951 entered into See also:partnership with the Copelands, who continued his business. See also:Herbert Minton (1793—1858) was the founder of another of the large See also:works. The See also:parliamentary See also:borough returns one member. In the Domesday Survey of Io86 See also:half the See also:church of Stoke and lands in Stoca are said to have belonged to See also:Robert of See also:Stafford. See also:Part of Stoke (Stoche or Stoca) at this See also:time belonged to the See also:Crown, since the royal See also:estate of Penculla (now Penkhull) was included within its See also:bounds. Frequent references to the See also:parish church of Stoke are found during the 14th and 15th centuries. Contemporary writers from 1787 onwards describe Stoke as a See also:market See also:town, but the See also:official See also:evidence states that the market rights were not acquired until 1845. Since then the market days have been Saturday and See also:Monday. Stoke-upon-See also:Trent became the railway centre and' See also:head of the parliamentary borough of Stoke-upon-Trent, comprising the whole of the See also:Staffordshire See also:Potteries, which was created by the Reform See also:Bill of 1832. In 1894 it was incorporated as a See also:municipality.

From 1833 to 1885 Stoke returned two members to See also:

parliament. From the See also:early 17th See also:century, if not earlier, See also:porcelain and earthenware manufactories existed at Stoke-upon-Trent, but they remained unnoticed until in 1686 Dr See also:Plot wrote his survey of Stafford-See also:shire. In the See also:middle of the 18th century there was a See also:great See also:industrial development in the Pottery See also:district. See See also:John See also:Ward, The Borough of Stoke-upon-Trent (See also:London, 1843).

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