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THE- 



STAFFORDSHIRE POTTERIES. 



THIS 



opulent and interesting district of the county, lies to the 

 north-east of Newcastle, and extends about nine or ten miles in 

 length. The POTTERIES, so called, are situated in the Hundred of 

 Pirehill North, and include the towns and villages of Golden Hill, 

 New-field, Smith-field, Tunstall, Longport, BURSLEM, Cobridge, 

 Etruria, HANLEY, Shelton, STOKE, Lower Lane, Lane Delf, and 

 LANE END, each of which places will be noticed in this their geo- 

 graphical order. 



Golden Hill is within the liberty of Oldcott, parish'of Wolstanton, 

 and is chiefly remarkable for its valuable mines of coal, and the fine 

 and extensive prospects which it commands : these include nearly 

 the whole of the county of Chester, with the Welch mountains in 

 the back-ground ; and the best general view of the POTTERIES, 

 with the surrounding country. 



New-field, was partly formed out of the very extensive town- 

 fields within the liberty of Tunstall, about the year 1613, though 

 William Badyley became seised of a messuage and certain quan- 

 tity of land there, in the 10th of Edward VI. It is well situated 

 for manufacturing purposes, having abundance of coal. 



ADMIRAL SMITH CHILD, who of late years lived on this estate, 

 settled on him by his maternal uncle, Thomas Baddeley, was of 

 Salopian descent, though his immediate ancestry were of Audley, 

 in this county, his great-grandfather, Smithe Child, having suc- 

 ceeded to Boyle's Hall and other property in the latter township, 

 (of which the Admiral was himself a native) on the demise of 

 Margaret Smithe, widow, about 1657. In the peace of 1763, he 

 married his kinswoman, Margaret Roylance, and resumed, near 

 the commencement of the American war, his naval duties, which 

 were continued to its termination. Whilst on shore, he ardently 

 participated in agricultural and other useful pursuits, and received 

 the honorary freedom of Newcastle-under-Lyme, and of Liverpool. 



