TUNSTALL  , a

market town of Staffordshire, England, on the northern outskirts of the Potteries district, included in the parliamentary borough of Newcastle-under-Lyme, 4 M . N.W. from Stoke-upon-Trent by the North Staffordshire railway . Pop. of urban district (1901), 19,492 . The town is of modern growth . The Victoria Institute (1889) includes a library and schools of art and science . The neighbourhood is full of collieries, ironworks and potteries . Kidsgrove, Chatterley and Talk-o'-th'-hill are large neighbouring villages; the mines at the last-namedwere the scene of a terrible explosion in 1866, by which nearly a hundred lives were lost . There are brick and tile works in Tunstall . The town is included in the large parish of Wolstanton, and in the borough of Stoke-on-Trent (q.v.) under the " Potteries Federation "scheme (1908) .