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

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

It was included in the municipal borough of Stoke-on-

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Trent under an
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act of 1908 .

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