Hanley

Hanley, a town of modern growth, in Staffordshire, in the district known as the Potteries (q.v.), 18 miles N. of Stafford. It manufactures china, earthenware, and encaustic tiles. In the vicinity are coal and iron mines. Hanley was constituted a municipal borough in 1857, and a parliamentary borough, returning one member, in 1885. Pop. (1851) 25,369; (1871) 39,976; (1881) 48,361; (1891) 54,846; of parliamentary borough (including Burslem, q.v.), 86,845.