Potteries may refer to: Pottery, or pottery manufacturing Places in England Staffordshire Potteries, the Stoke-on-Trent area, known as the after its once-important ceramics industry The Potteries Urban Area, a conurbation distinct from, and covering a larger area than, the Staffordshire Potteries Potteries Shopping Centre, a shopping centre in Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent Other uses Potteries, Shrewsbury and North Wales Railway, England and Wales Potteries dialect, of Midlands English