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Originally appearing in Volume V27, Page 410 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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TUNSTALL , a See also:

MARKET (Lat. mercatus, trade or place of trade)

market See also:

TOWN

town of See also:

STAFFORDSHIRE

Staffordshire, See also:

England, on the See also:

NORTHERN

northern outskirts of the See also:

POTTERIES, THE

Potteries See also:

DISTRICT

district, included in the See also:

PARLIAMENTARY

parliamentary See also:

borough of See also:

Newcastle-under-Lyme, 4 M. N.W. from Stoke-upon-See also:

Trent by the See also:

North Staffordshire railway. Pop. of See also:

urban district (1901), 19,492. The town is of See also:

MODERN

modern growth. The See also:

Victoria See also:

INSTITUTE (from Lat. instituere, to establish or set up)

Institute (1889) includes a library and See also:

SCHOOLS

schools of See also:

ART

art and See also:

SCIENCE (Lat. scientia, from scire; to learn, know)

science. The neighbourhood is full of collieries, ironworks and potteries. Kidsgrove, Chatterley and Talk-o'-th'-See also:

hill are large neighbouring villages; the mines at the last-namedwere the See also:

SCENE (Fr. scene, Lat. scaena, Gr. oflvil, a tent or booth, a stage or scene)

scene of a terrible See also:

EXPLOSION

explosion in 1866, by which nearly a See also:

HUNDRED

hundred lives were lost. There are See also:

BRICK (derived according to some etymologists from the Teutonic bricke, a disk or plate; but more authoritatively, through the French brique, originally a " broken piece," applied especially to bread, and so to clay, from the Teutonic brikan, to break)

brick and See also:

TILE (0. Eng. tigel, Fr. tuile, connected with Lat. tegula)

tile See also:

WORKS

works in Tunstall. The town is included in the large See also:

PARISH (Gr. irapouda, district, neighbourhood; 7r&poucos, one dwelling near or beside, from crap&, OtKOS, house; Lat. paroecur, Late Lat. parochia; cf. Fr. paroisse)

parish of Wolstanton, and in the borough of Stoke-on-Trent (q.v.) under the " Potteries Federation "See also:

SCHEME (Lat. schema, Gr. oxfjya, figure, form, from the root axe, seen in exeiv, to have, hold, to be of such shape, form, &c.)

scheme (1908).

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