A replacement milepost located near to the site of Josiah Wedgewood's Etruria
factory. This area was the site of the 1986 National Garden festival.
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Wedgewood's Etruria factory was located alongside the canal to the south of here.
It was completed in 1768, but was demolished in the late 1970s and only one
small building remains. Wedgewood's house has survived, however, and can be seen
on the hill overlooking the canal.
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The factory also bordered the Newcastle to Leek turnpike. This is now the A53
and, where it crosses the canal, there is a turnpike milepost sunk into the
verge. A lot of the turnpikes in the area used mileposts from Rangley &
Dickson cast in the same style. This particular one states Leek 10 Newcastle
1½.
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