page_title: Etruria, Staffordshire
section_title: Home of Wedgwood
hierarchical_section_title: Etruria, Staffordshire / History / Home of Wedgwood
caption_attribution_description: English: Josiah Wedgwood's House, Etruria. Now part of the Moat House Hotel.
context_page_description: Etruria is a suburb of Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England.
context_section_description: Etruria was the fourth and penultimate site for the Wedgwood pottery business.  Josiah Wedgwood, who was previously based in Burslem, opened his new works 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 (140 ha) and was next to the Trent and Mersey Canal.  As well as Wedgwood's home, Etruria Hall, it included the Etruria Works which 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.
  Etruria Hall was the site of the substantial invention of photography by Thomas Wedgwood in the 1790s.
caption: Etruria Hall, the Wedgwood family home.
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