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Wedgwood Pottery Works
From the Churchyard Works where Josiah Wedgwood was apprenticed to the Barlaston Factory
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The history of Wedgwood is closely tied to a succession of pottery works spanning more than 250 years. This guide begins at the Churchyard Works in Burslem, where the young Josiah Wedgwood learned his craft in the family pottery, before following the development of the factories he established and those that succeeded them. |
| Churchyard | Ivy House | Brick House | Etruria | Barlaston |
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| Apprentice 1744 | 1759-1762 | 1762-1772 | 1769-1950 | 1940-present |
| Wedgwood family pottery |
Josiah's
first independent pottery |
expansion
& innovation |
purpose-built industrial pottery |
twentieth-century reinvention |
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Related Pages
![]() History of Josiah Wedgwood & Sons |
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![]() Wedgwood Index Page |
![]() Josiah Wedgwood Biography |
![]() Misuse of the Wedgwood name |
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