Locations in Bennett's Novels

Towns and villages:

Bleakridge:	Cobridge, once a relatively exclusive suburb, between Burslem and Hanley. Bennett lived in Cobridge with his parents.
Bursley	Burslem - the 'Mother Town' of the Potteries, most of Bennett's 'Five Towns' novels are set in Burslem. [ on Bennett's Burslem]
Hanbridge:	Hanley - the 'Chicago' of the Potteries. Bennett was born in Hanley in 1867. [ on Bennett's Hanley]
Hillport:	Porthill
Knype:	The town of Stoke-upon-Trent (not to be confused with the city of Stoke-on-Trent, of which Stoke is one of the six towns). [ on Bennett's Stoke]
Longshaw:	Longton  [ on Bennett's Longton]
Mow Cop:	A hill to the north of the Potteries, on the Staffordshire / Cheshire border. The site of the early Primitive Methodist camp meetings.
Oldcastle:	Newcastle-under-Lyme (the "seventh" town)
Shawport:	Longport
Toft End:	Sneyd Green, south east of Burslem
Turnhill:	Tunstall [ on Bennett's Tunstall]

Buildings:

John Baines' Shop	At the bottom of St. John's Square
Blood Tub:	A wooden theatre - the site of Bennett's Blood Tub corresponds to that of the Wedgwood Theatre Royal, which stood in Wedgwood Place.
Cauldon Bar Ironworks:	The Shelton Bar iron and steelworks, which was in Etruria valley to the west of Hanley
Clayhanger's printing works:	Bennett's description of the Clayhanger house, shop and printing works may have been based on a building which still stands on the south side of Swan Square, Burslem, at the corner of Queen Street and Waterloo Road.
Conservative Club:	The actual building is 'The Big House' top of Swan Square.
Critchlow's Chemist Shop:	At the bottom of St. John's Square
Dragon Hotel:	The George Hotel on the corner of Nile Street and Waterloo Road.
Duck Inn	The Swan Inn, Swan Square, Burslem.
National Schools:	Corresponds to the St John's Church of England School, Burslem.
Oldcastle Middle School:	Orme's Boys' School. (The description of Edwin's walk home is based on the journey that Bennett used to make as a boy from this school in Newcastle-under-Lyme, across the valley between Porthill and Burslem.)
Pirehill Infirmary:	The North Staffordshire Royal Infirmary, Hartshill.
Povey's Confectioners Shop:	Daniel Povey's Confectioners Shop in Queen's Street, Burslem.
Shambles:	Burslem's former meat market in Market Place.
St Luke's covered market:	The first covered market in Burslem stood in the market place to the east of the town hall.
Sytch Pottery:	Corresponds to Samuel Alcock & Co's Hill Top Pottery, in Burslem, at the top of Sytch Bank. A Georgian building, now demolished. Bennett wrote to the Staffordshire Sentinel (19 March 1909) to protest about the boarding-up of the window.
the Tiger:	The Leopard public house, Burslem
Town Hall:	Built in 1854 Burslem's second town hall was in Market Place, next to the 'Shambles' meat market.
The Wedgwood Institute	Queen's Street, Burslem

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For further guidance consult Studies in the sources of Arnold Bennett's novels by Louis Tillier (Didier, Paris 1949), and Arnold Bennett and Stoke-on-Trent by E. J. D. Warrilow (Etruscan Publications, 1966).