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Wetheriggs Pottery, Wetheriggs
Wetheriggs Pottery
Wetheriggs Country Pottery
locality:-   Wetheriggs
civil parish:-   Clifton (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   pottery
locality type:-   workplace
coordinates:-   NY55472628
1Km square:-   NY5526
10Km square:-   NY52

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BMD81.jpg  Engine house.
(taken 30.5.2006)  
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BMD85.jpg  Engine house, etc.
(taken 30.5.2006)  
evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 8 1) 
placename:-  Wetheriggs Brick and Tile Works
source data:-   Maps, 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.
evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  Wetheriggs Pottery
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"WETHERIGGS POTTERY / / / CLIFTON / EDEN / CUMBRIA / II / 74236 / NY5547426281"
source data:-  
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."

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BMD82.jpg  Tramroad from clay pit.
(taken 30.5.2006)  
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BMD83.jpg  Tramroad into clay pit.
(taken 30.5.2006)  
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BMD84.jpg  Tip wagon, where the raw clay is emptied into a 'stirrer'.
(taken 30.5.2006)  
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BMD86.jpg  Stationary engine, Josephine, made by W C Holmes and Co, Huddersfield, Yorkshire.
(taken 30.5.2006)  
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BMD87.jpg  Clay processing.
(taken 30.5.2006)  
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BMD88.jpg  Beehive Kiln.
(taken 30.5.2006)  
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BMD89.jpg  Beehive kiln.
(taken 30.5.2006)  
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BMD90.jpg  Entrance to the country pottery, craft shop etc. Now gone.
(taken 30.5.2006)  

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CDG89.jpg  Teapot:-
"Mis Wilderidge" (taken 30.5.2006)  courtesy of Penrith Museum.
A present from the children of Clifton School, to their teacher, Miss Annie Wilderidge, when she was married.
hearsay:-  
 Begun making bricks and tiles, 1760. It made pantiles, unusual for houses in this area.

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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