People of the Potteries<\/a><\/em> (At last, I’ve been able to see it. It will be noted in my forthcoming update of my bibliography of North Staffordshire folklore, re: the ‘white rabbit’ ghost of Etruria Grove, and the chapter \u201cBemersley\u201d with its details of a Mow Cop innkeeper and early ‘magic methodist’ named Zacchariah Baddeley).<\/p>\nFrom the latter book, on the Fowlea Brook at Etruria…<\/p>\n
1) From \u201cA Etruria ghost\u201d<\/p>\n
“Etruria is much changed from what it was forty years ago [i.e. 1820s-30s]. [Apart from the curving line of houses that formed Etruria, as seen on the Henry Lark Pratt painting…] The whole country was open, and some parts may be described as wild. The sloping hills of the \u2018wood\u2019 [later known as ‘Etruria Woods’ by Warrillow?] with its low brushwood and gorse, hemmed the village on one side, although the effect was somewhat spoiled by a marshy meadow which lay between it and the village. The rushes that grew here were a favourite resort for curious birds in winter, and now and then even sea birds would find their way to the place. [The latter still happens today]. One thing helped to make it a safe shelter for such visitors — the brook that runs through the valley would sometimes, after heavy rain, be swollen to a lakelet, filling the whole meadows, and even finding its way to the doors of the cottages.” <\/p>\n
From \u201cAlfred Bourne\u201d<\/p>\n
“… Foulhay brook. How different was that brook then than now. In the days of which I write its waters were as clear as spring waters, and its embankments studded with willow trees.”<\/p>\n
Presumably this then gives the name. On the 1775 Yates map the Fowlea at Etruria is marked as “Fowl Hay”. In other words, ‘the wildfowl(-rich) hay-meadows’.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
New on Archive.org, to borrow… Warriors, warlords and saints: the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Mercia. Historic Staffordshire (1896, 1975 reprint). Diary of a hunter (1981, ferreting memoirs in Staffordshire). Psychiatry in North Staffordshire 1808-1986. The North Staffordshire Railway in LMS days. People of the Potteries (At last, I’ve been able to see it. It will be […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10252"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18200,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10252\/revisions\/18200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}