Stoke-on-Trent is a city in Staffordshire, central England, on the Trent River. Stoke-on-Trent is the center of the British ceramic industries and comprises a place referred to as the Potteries District. Manufactures aside from porcelain and earthenware include machinery and chemicals; coal is also mined. The well-known potters Josiah Wedgwood, Josiah Spode, and Thomas Minton founded potteries within the eighteenth century. The industry's progress was aided by the opening of the Trent and Mersey Canal in 1777. In 1910 the towns of Burslem, Fenton, Hanley, Longton, Stoke-on-Trent, and Tunstall were united into one administrative unit, Stoke-on-Trent.
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