Old Cumbria Gazetteer
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| placename:- | Wetheriggs Pottery | |
| other name:- | Wetheriggs Country Pottery | |
| locality:- | Wetheriggs | |
| parish |
Clifton parish, once in
Westmorland
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| county:- | Cumbria | |
| pottery | ||
| coordinates:- |
NY55472628 | |
| 10Km square:- |
NY52
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| 1Km square | NY5526 | |
 Wetheriggs Pottery -- Wetheriggs -- Clifton -- Cumbria / -- Engine house. -- 30.5.2006 | ||
 Wetheriggs Pottery -- Wetheriggs -- Clifton -- Cumbria / -- Engine house, etc. -- 30.5.2006 | ||
| old map:- |
OS County Series (Wmd 8 1)
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| County Series maps of Great Britain, scales 6 and 25 inches to 1 mile, published by the Ordnance Survey, Southampton, Hampshire, from about 1863 to 1948. | ||
| placename:- | Wetheriggs Brick and Tile Works | |
| brickworks | ||
| date:- | 1890=1899 | |
| period:- | 19th century, late; 1890s | |
| database:- |
Listed Buildings 2010
Listed Buildings 2010 | |
| courtesy of English Heritage | ||
| WETHERIGGS POTTERY / / / CLIFTON / EDEN / CUMBRIA / II / 74236 / NY5547426281 | ||
| courtesy of English Heritage | ||
| Kiln, workshops, drying shed, kiln room, steam house and blunger. 1855 as a brick and tileworks for the Brougham estate. Red brick walls, under pantile roofs with stone and brick chimney stacks. Single-storey buildings arranged in U-shape around a small courtyard, with attached steam house and blunger. Bee-hive kiln is within square brick building with plank doors. Adjoining long workshops have plank doors and casement windows. Right-angled range is divided into open-sided drying shed and enclosed kiln room. Rear steam house has plank doors and round-arched casement windows; tall square chimney stack. Adjoining blunger is a circular brick-lined pit with central pivoted paddle for mixing clay and water, powered by the steam engine in the steam house. A working pottery which continued using old methods of production until the mid C20. Now reopened as a working pottery, to which the public are admitted, preserving original machinery and traditional designs, but electrically fired kiln. See guide book, Wetheriggs Country Pottery, 1984. The present shop and house are not of special interest. | ||
| placename:- | Wetheriggs Pottery | |
| district:- | Eden | |
| listed building | ||
| coordinates:- |
NY55472628 | |
| date:- | 2010 | |
| period:- | 2010s | |
| photographs | ||
| Wetheriggs Pottery -- Wetheriggs -- Clifton -- Cumbria / -- Tramway from clay pit. -- 30.5.2006 | |
| Wetheriggs Pottery -- Wetheriggs -- Clifton -- Cumbria / -- Tramway into clay pit. -- 30.5.2006 | |
| Wetheriggs Pottery -- Wetheriggs -- Clifton -- Cumbria / -- Tip wagon, where the raw clay is emptied into a 'stirrer'. -- 30.5.2006 | |
| Wetheriggs Pottery -- Wetheriggs -- Clifton -- Cumbria / -- Stationary engine, Josephine, made by W C Holmes and Co, Huddersfield, Yorkshire. -- 30.5.2006 | |
| Wetheriggs Pottery -- Wetheriggs -- Clifton -- Cumbria / -- Clay processing. -- 30.5.2006 | |
| Wetheriggs Pottery -- Wetheriggs -- Clifton -- Cumbria / -- Beehive Kiln. -- 30.5.2006 | |
| Wetheriggs Pottery -- Wetheriggs -- Clifton -- Cumbria / -- Beehive kiln. -- 30.5.2006 | |
| Wetheriggs Pottery -- Wetheriggs -- Clifton -- Cumbria / -- Entrance to the country pottery, craft shop etc. Now gone. -- 30.5.2006 | |
| hearsay |
Begun making bricks and tiles, 1760. It made pantiles,
unusual for houses in this area.
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Baren, Maurice: 2002: How it all Began in the Lake
District: Dalesman Publishing Co (Skipton, North
Yorkshire):: ISBN 1 85568 195 1
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| Old Cumbria Gazetteer - JandMN: 2008 | ||
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