Whitecliff Pottery (General)

by Slowhand-s , Friday, June 17, 2005, 10:17 (7105 days ago) @ Carmel Boyle

A pottery recorded at Whitecliff in 1720 (Footnote 61) was possibly that making casting pots for the nearby ironworks in 1803. (Footnote 62) The pottery, which employed 16 men and boys in 1851, (Footnote 63) continued in production in the early 1880s (Footnote 64) but was disused in 1898. (Footnote 65

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62Ibid. MR 879; O.S. Map 6", Glos XXX. SE. (1884 edn.).
63Hockaday Abs. clxxvi, Christ Church 1816.
64G.D.R. wills 1794/54.
65N.L.W., Dunraven MSS. 271.

From: 'Coleford', A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume V: Bledisloe Hundred, St. Briavels Hundred, The Forest of Dean (1996), pp. 117-38. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=23255. Date accessed: 16 June 2005.61P.R.O., F 17/96