Date: 1842
Tbe town contains many handsome houses, commodious wharfs and warehouses, and extensive china and earthenware manufactories, — and is deemed the parish town of the Potteries.  The first steam- engine for grinding burnt flint, for the use of the potters, vvas erected in Stoke.  The paiish is within the jurisdiction of the county magistrates, aud the police is under thc superintendence of commissioners ap pointed by an act of parliament — under the provisions of which, also, a chief bai liff is elected, who convenes and presides at all meetings of the inhabitants.