[2] Jewitt's book The Wedgwoods (1865) refers to the early 17th century Burslem pottery works and reveals the role played in these by Baddeley Edge... "The clays it appears, were mostly procured from the coal measures, and fine sand to mix and temper them was procured from Baddeley Edge, Mole Cop [Mow Cop] and other places.

"[3] Solon (1875) is more specific... "[Around 1710-20 in nearby Burslem] potters began to make a fire-resisting body which could stand the required temperature, by mixing the whitish clay found at Shelton with the fine sand of Baddeley Edge".

In the roof of the 'Muck Row' coal seam there, Victorian antiquarians found fossils of prehistoric sharks (Diplodus gibbosus) that swam some 300 million years ago.

Today, on the south-western side of Baddeley Edge one can find the Bagnall Road Wood Nature Reserve, with the large green Carmountside Cemetery beyond.

For instance it is a short walk south on footpaths to the very large Wetley Moor Common which is an important national nature reserve.