(the) Five Towns

(the) Five Towns
the Five Towns [the Five Towns] noun [pl]
five former towns in the ↑Potteries region of the English ↑Midlands. The towns were Tunstall, Burslem, Hanley, Stoke-upon-Trent and Longton. They were close to each other and were important centres of the ↑pottery industry from the 17th century until, in 1910, they joined together as one town, ↑Stoke-on-Trent. The Five Towns became well known as the ↑setting for the novels of Arnold Bennett.

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