Stokeon Trent

Stoke-on-Trent, the chief centre of the "Potteries," stands 15 miles N. of Stafford on the river Trent, the Trent and Mersey Canal, and the London and North-Western and North Staffordshire Railways. It is connected with Burslem and other places by steam trams. Its prosperity is entirely due to the development of the manufacture of earthenware within the last sixty years, though there are also iron-works. It was incorporated in 1874, and now returns one member to Parliament.