Five Towns

British  

noun

1. the name given in his fiction by Arnold Bennett to the Potteries towns (actually six in number) of Burslem, Fenton, Hanley, Longton, Stoke-upon-Trent, and Tunstall, now part of the city of Stoke-on-Trent

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Example Sentences

Kominsky-Crumb was born on Long Island, in the suburb of Five Towns.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 1, 2022

He's like an upper-middle-class kid from the Five Towns of Long Island.

From Salon • Jan. 28, 2020

A head-and-neck surgeon, he moved to New York, met Sondra, a nurse, whom he married, and settled with her in Lawrence, one of the Five Towns, on Long Island.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 29, 2019

Likewise, readers from the Midlands who recognise where Turnhill, Bursley, Hanbridge, Knype and Longshaw really are when reading Arnold Bennett’s Five Towns books enjoy a little thrill of superiority.

From The Guardian • May 26, 2015

They were as they were, save that Mr. Sutton had joined the Five Towns Field Club and acquired some of the habits of an archaeologist.

From Anna of the Five Towns by Bennett, Arnold