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is a considerable village within the township of Tunstall Court,
a liberty in the parish of Woolstanton, four miles from
Newcastle, pleasantly situated on an eminence, deriving its name
from the Saxon word, tun or ton, a town, and stall,
an elevated place, seat or station."
"In this township abounds
coal, ironstone, marl and fine channel coal; and the
manufactories of earthenware are very extensive here."
1828 journal
Tunstall is the most northern
town of the city. Historians have found that iron
was being produced in the town as far back as 1280. It stands on a ridge surrounded by old tilemaking and brickmaking
sites, some of which probably date back to the late middle ages.
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located in the town have been the Adams dynasty of potters as well as
Alfred Meakin,
Booths and Enoch
Wedgwood.
Decorative
ceramic tiles are still made in Tunstall by H and R Johnson-Richards
Tiles Ltd.
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Dates in the
history of Tunstall
1282 -
References to coal mining at Tunstall.
1821 - Tunstall Court liberty contained 2,622
inhabitants.
1885 - Tunstall's new
Town Hall completed. Designed by A. R. Wood.
1893 - Clock Tower
erected in Tunstall's Tower Square - on the site of the original
Town Hall.
1894 - Tunstall and Fenton became urban districts.
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Facts about
Tunstall from old journals
The grand Trunk canal is within
half a mile of the village; and the Harecastle tunnel, running
nearly two miles underground, is within a short distance.
There is a spacious market, erected in 1858. The market days are
Saturday and Monday, the former being the principal. There are
no fairs.,
In the Market Square is a clock-tower (1893) commemorating Sir
Smith Child, of Stallington Hall, a great benefactor to the
town.
The chief manufacture of the town is earthenware; there are also
extensive iron work for the manufacture of pig, bar, and sheet
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Tunstall from W. Yates' A Map of
the County of Stafford, 1775
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