Etruria Works

Spot, building, farm, …

Stoke-on-Trent, United Kingdom

Location of the pottery manufacturing plant.

See organisation: Wedgwood.

Note about the map: The coordinates of the site are not known. For the localisation they were derived from the context.

Traveljournal 1814

First encounter with malleable cast iron in Birmingham, 30 August 1814
File manufactory and a trip to Newcastle-under-Lyme, 31 August 1814
In Wedgwood’s Etruria Works, 1 September 1814

Traveljournal 1825

Birmingham–Manchester, 17 June 1825

Henderson, W. O.: J. C. Fischers Reisen durch die Industriegebiete Englands 1814–1851. In: Tradition - Zeitschrift für Firmengeschichte und Unternehmensbiographie 1964, S. 120f.

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Cite as: Etruria Works. In: Travel Reports of a Pioneer: Digital Edition of the Travel Journals of Johann Conrad Fischer 1794–1851. Published by Franziska Eggimann. Edited by Franziska Eggimann, Nicolau Lutz, Valerija Rukavina und Christopher Zoller-Blundell. Schlatt 2023, Version 1.2, https://johannconradfischer.com/en/places/gfa-places-1761, viewed on 7 June 2025.

[[title]] — Etruria Works (llustration from The Life of Josiah Wedgwood by Eliza Meteyard, 1866)