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A town industrialised first by coal and blast furnaces and now modern industry has taken over, but the town’s existence is due to the ‘father’ of pottery Josiah Wedgwood. He proposed a plan to link the Potteries to the sea.
His engineer James Brindley took 11 years to build a tunnel more than 1½ miles long through Harecastle Ridge in Kidsgrove, and the men who worked on the canal became the town’s first inhabitants.
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- Landmark