Etruria, Staffordshire

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Not to be confused with Etruria.

Etruria

Coordinates: 53.0189° N 2.1994° W
OS grid reference	SJ867468
Unitary authority	Stoke-on-Trent
Ceremonial county	Staffordshire
Region	West Midlands
Constituent country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	STOKE-ON-TRENT
Postcode district	ST1
Dial code	01782
Police	Staffordshire
Fire	Staffordshire
Ambulance	Staffordshire
UK Parliament	Stoke-on-Trent Central
European Parliament	West Midlands
List of places: UK • England

Etruria is a district of Stoke-on-Trent to the west of the city's main town of Hanley. It was the fourth and penultimate site for the Wedgwood pottery business. Opened by Josiah Wedgwood in 1769, it was named after the Italian district of Etruria, home of the Etruscan people who were renowned for their artistic products. The site covered 350 acres (1.4 km²) and was next to the Trent and Mersey Canal. It included the Etruria Works as well as Wedgwood's home Etruria Hall. It remained in use by the Wedgwood enterprise until 1950. The Wedgwood factory is now in Barlaston, a village about six miles to the south of the Etruria site.

Much of Etruria became derelict with the move of the Wedgwood works and the partial closure of the nearby steelworks. It was regenerated in the 1980s as part of the Stoke-on-Trent Garden Festival; the Festival site has been developed with the Festival Park commercial and retail development. Etruria is also home to The Sentinel, the local evening newspaper for the Stoke-on-Trent area. The press hall there is responsible for printing several newspaper titles, including The Sentinel, Sentinel Sunday and many northern editions of The Daily Mail. The Sentinel had previously been based in Hanley.

Etruria was served by a railway station which was opened by the North Staffordshire Railway on October 9, 1848, but it was closed on 30 September 2005.^[1]