a town of the county of Stafford, in the hundred of Firehill. It is one of those large places which have grown up with rapidity of late years, from the great extension of the manufacture of earthenware and porcelain. It is only a part of the parish of Stoke-upon-Trent, but has churches, markets, post-office, and all the other appendages of a town. By the census of 1832, it contained 1402 families, with 7121 inhabitants. Of the families, 1120 were occupied in trade or in manufactures, forty-nine in agriculture, and 233 were of neither of these descriptions.