Company type | Private limited company |
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Industry | Pottery |
Predecessor | Hulme and Booth |
Founded | 1851 |
Founder | F R Burgess & W Leigh |
Headquarters | , |
Area served | Worldwide |
Key people | William Leigh & Frederick Rathbone Burgess (founders), Edmund Leigh (chairman) |
Products | Earthenware pottery |
Owner | Denby Pottery Company |
Number of employees | Unknown |
Website | www |
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.