BURSLEM, industrial town of Staffordshire, England, in the Potteries district, 15om. N.W. from London, on the L.M.S. rail way and the Grand Trunk Canal. Pop. of parish (1891) 31,999; (1921) 41,566. In the 17th century the town was already famous for its manufacture of pottery. Here Josiah Wedgwood was born in 173o, his family having practised the manufacture in this lo cality for several generations, while he himself began work inde pendently at the Ivy House pottery in 1759. He is commemorated by the Wedgwood Institute, founded in 1863. The neighbouring towns of Stoke, Hanley and Longton are connected with Burslem by tramways. Burslem is mentioned in Domesday. It was in cluded in the county borough of Stoke-on-Trent under an act of 1908. For purposes of parliamentary representation it forms the Burslem Division of the county borough of Stoke-on-Trent.