a township and chapelry in the county of Stafford, in the hundred of North Pirehill, formerly a division of the parish of Stoke-upon-Trent. It is two miles east-north-east from Newcastle-under-Line, and is situated on the Trent and Mersey Canal, by which its trade is much facilitated. In this township are the potteries of the village of Etruria, erected by the scientific Mr Wedgwood, who has a villa in it remarkable for the beauty of its situation, and the classical arrangement of its architectural details. There are more than thirty manufactories in the town, which give occupation to above 5000 of the inhabitants. The place is well paved, and lighted with gas. It has a church, the patronage of which is in the rector of Stoke, in whose parish it was previous to the division of that large living. There are two dissenting places of worship, with Sunday schools, in which 600 children are instructed. The population amounted in 1811 to 5487, in 1821 to 7325, and in 1831 to 9267.