There’s an interesting new website, Martin Docksey’s Essays On The History Of North Staffordshire, currently with a focus on Norton-in-the-Moors (east of Burslem), the ancient history of the Maer Hills, and Burslem during the plague of 1647-8. With a fine picture of the apparent site of the first Norman Mott and Bailey (i.e. a wooden fort, 1070-1086), sited near the Shrewsbury-to-Chesterton Roman road…