The home of the china and earthenware
industries, in central England. Wedgwood and
Minton are factory names associated with the
Potteries. The Potteries lie in the upper
Trent basin of N Staffordshire, covering the
area around Stoke-on-Trent, and include the
formerly separate towns of Burslem, Hanley,
Longton, Fenton, and Tunstall.