A vision of Britain through time
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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
ETRURIA-popularly Trury, a village and a chapelry in Shelton township, Stoke -upon - Trent parish, Stafford. The village stands on the North Stafford railway, and on the Grand Trunk canal, 1 mile SSE of Burslem; and has a station on the railway, a post office under Stoke-upon-Trent, and a chief inn. It was founded and named by Josiah Wedgewood; was the scene of many of those inventions and improvements by which he carried the manufacture of pottery to a state of high excellence; and was the place of his death, at Etruria Hall, in 1795. Gas-works here, established in 1820, at a cost of £35, 000, supply great part of the pottery district. The chapelry includes the village, and was constituted in 1844. Pop., 2, 922. Houses, 603. The property is subdivided. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lichfield. Value, £150.* Patron, alternately the Crown and the Bishop. The church is a good edifice in the Saxon style; and there are chapels for Wesleyans, New Connexion Methodists, and Unitarians.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a village and a chapelry" (ADL Feature Type: "populated places") |
| Administrative units: | Stoke on Trent CP/AP Staffordshire AncC |
| Place: | Etruria |
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