Potteries may refer to: *

Pottery Pottery is the process and the products of forming vessels and other objects with clay and other ceramic materials, which are fired at high temperatures to give them a hard and durable form. Major types include earthenware, stoneware and por ...

, or pottery manufacturing

Places in England

* Staffordshire Potteries, the Stoke-on-Trent area, known as the after its once-important ceramics industry *

The Potteries Urban Area The Stoke-on-Trent Built-up Area or The Potteries Urban Area or colloquially, simply "The Potteries" is a conurbation in North Staffordshire in the West Midlands region of England. It includes the City of Stoke-on-Trent, and parts of the boroughs ...

, a conurbation distinct from, and covering a larger area than, the Staffordshire Potteries * Potteries Shopping Centre, a shopping centre in Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent

Other uses

Potteries, Shrewsbury and North Wales Railway The Potteries, Shrewsbury and North Wales Railway, (known informally as the 'Potts'), was a railway built between Shrewsbury, England, and quarry locations at Nantmawr and Criggion in Wales. It was initially opened in 1866; despite the extensive t ...

, England and Wales *

Potteries dialect Potteries is an English dialect of the West Midlands of England, almost exclusively in and around Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire. Origin and history As with most local dialects in English, Potteries dialect derives originally from Anglo Sa ...

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