Burslem

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Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A town within the city of Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England (OS grid ref SJ8749).

Etymology

From Old English Burgweard (“a personal name”) + -s- + Proto-Celtic *limos (“elm”).

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