pied in this branch of manufacture, which is now perhaps not inferior to china itself. Josiah Wedgewood here cut the first clod of the Trent and Mersey Canal, a work which has been of such infinite importance to the district.
Longport and Brownhills are portions of the parish of Burslem, and their population is included in the Burslem return.
Lane-End and Longton, a market town, and a hamlet, forming together an extensive township, 4 miles from Newcastle; Population, 9,608. Market days, Wednesday and Saturday; fairs, Feb. 14, May 20, July 23, Nov. 1. The church was built in 1764, rebuilt in 1795, and enlarged in 1828; it is a chapel-of-ease to Stoke-upon-Trent; the living is a perpetual curacy in the gift of trustees. A new church is building under the direction of the Parliamentary Commissioners; there are also places of worship for methodists, independents, baptists, and Roman Catholics, and there are two Free Schools. This most prosperous town has risen into opulence within a comparatively few years.
Tunstan, or Tunstan Court, a market town and liberty in the parish of Walstanton; it is situated on an eminence four miles N. by E. from Newcastle; market on Saturdays; Population, 3673, chiefly employed in the manufacture of bricks, tiles, and porcelain, and in its neighbourhood are fine veins of coal, clay, and iron ore. The Grand Trunk Canal passes within half a mile of the town, and the great double Tunnel, which runs for two miles under Hare Castle
