Potteries, The, a district in North Staffordshire, 9 m. long by 3 broad, the centre of the earthenware manufacture of England; it includes Hanley, Burslem, Stoke-upon-Trent, &c.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Potter, Paul * Pot-wallopers