Plot, writing in 1686, says, “the greatest pottery they have in this county is carried on at Burslem, near Newcastle-under-Lyme, where for making their different sorts of pots they have as many different sorts of clay, which they dig round about the towne, all within halfe a mile’s distance, the best being found nearest the coale,” &c.[45] The town has earned for itself the name of “mother of the potteries.” In the early part of the eighteenth century, the potters in Burslem appear to have been as follows:-- Thos. Wedgwood (2). John and Samuel Cartlich. Robt. Daniel. Thos., Isaac, and Rcd. Malkin. Dr. Thos. Wedgwood. Wm., Rcd., and Jhn.(3) Simpson. Thos. Cartwright. John Wedgwood. Robt. Bucknall. Isaac Wood. Richard Wedgwood. Thos. Taylor. Wm. Harrison. John and Robt. Adams. Moses Marsh. Aaron Shaw. Thos. Mitchell. J. Warburton. J. Bagnall. Aaron Wedgwood H. (?) Marsh. Moses Shaw. Isaac Ball. Saml. Edge. Thos. Lockett. J. Tunstall. Moses Steel. Hugh Mayer. J. Stevenson. H. Beech. Ralph Daniel. In 1750 the potters--_i.e._ owners of pot-works--appear to have been-- Moses Copeland. John Marsh. Ralph Allen. Moses Marsh (two). Aaron Shaw. John Daniell. Richd. Parrott. Thos. Cartlich (Olding). E. Astbury. Saml. Malkin. John Adams. Ralph Adams. Wm. Lockett. Robt. Daniell. Thos. Steel. Samuel Cartlich. Maria Locker. John Heath. Richd. Onions. Aaron Clowes. Ephraim Booth. John Taylor. Thos. Taylor. Joseph Simpson (two). Clark Malkin. Thos. Mitchell. John Mitchell. Josiah Simpson. Taylor (two). William Burn. J. Ball. Aaron Cartlich. Timothy Lockett. &c. A century later, in 1843, according to Ward, the potters then at work were Enoch Wood and Sons; Samuel Alcock & Co., who occupied their pot-works at the Hill Top; Machin and Potts (formerly Machin and Baggaley), at the Waterloo Works; Mellor, Venables & Co., Hole House; Thomas Godwin, Burslem Wharf; John WedgWood, Hadderidge; Barker, Sutton, and Till, Liverpool Road; Peter Hopkin, Market Place; William Pointon, Green Head; Samuel Mayer & Co., Waterloo Road; Joseph Hawley, Waterloo Road; Maddock & Seddon, Newcastle Street; James Vernon & Co., High Street; James and Thomas Edwards, Kiln Croft; Cork and Condliffe, Queen Street; Nehemiah Massey, Bournes Bank; Ann Holland, Hill Top; Daniel Edge, Waterloo Road; Jones and Bell, Bell Works; and those not then occupied were the Churchyard Works (late J. and J. Jackson), the Big House Works (formerly Thos. Wedgwood), the Hamill Street Works (formerly Cartlidge and Beech), the Knowl Works (formerly Breezes), and the Navigation Works, late John Waltons.