Burleigh Pottery

Burleigh Pottery
Company typePrivate limited company
IndustryPottery
PredecessorHulme and Booth
Founded1851
FounderF R Burgess & W Leigh
Headquarters,
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
William Leigh & Frederick Rathbone Burgess (founders), Edmund Leigh (chairman)
ProductsEarthenware pottery
OwnerDenby Pottery Company
Number of employees
Unknown
Websitewww.burleigh.co.uk
Teapot, 1896, Burgess & Leigh, V&A Museum

Burleigh Pottery (also known as Burgess & Leigh) is the name of a pottery manufacturer in Middleport, Stoke-on-Trent. The business specialises in traditionally decorated earthenware tableware.[1][2][3]

The factory is a nineteenth-century grade II* listed buildings known as the Middleport Pottery. In addition production facilities at site, which is next to the Trent and Mersey Canal,[4] has a visitor centre and a factory shop.

  1. ^ "Made in Britain: Burleigh Pottery". 6 April 2015.
  2. ^ "Burleigh Victorian pottery firm sale agreed". BBC News. 24 August 2010.
  3. ^ "Featuring British Made Burleigh Pottery's Collection 'One' - the Smashing New Collection You Need in Your Home".
  4. ^ Historic England & 1297939.