the Five Towns
noun /ðə ˌfaɪv ˈtaʊnz/
/ðə ˌfaɪv ˈtaʊnz/
[plural]- five former towns in the Potteries region of the English Midlands. The towns were Tunstall, Burslem, Hanley, Stoke-upon-Trent and Longton. They were close to each other and were important centres of the pottery industry from the seventeenth century until, in 1910, they joined together as one town, Stoke-on-Trent. The Five Towns became well known as the setting for the novels of Arnold Bennett.