Figure 5. — Map of Barnstaple. Reproduced from J. B. Gribble, Memorials of Barnstaple, 1830. 



Magazine carried an account of Bideford, stating:-^ 



Great quantities of potters ware are made, and exported to 

 Wales, Ireland, and Bristol .... In the parish of Freming- 

 ton are great quantities of reddish potters' clay, which 



2» "Some Account of Biddeford, in Answer to the Queries 

 Relative to a Natural History of England," The Gentlemen's 

 Magazine, 1755, vol. 25, p. 445. 



2» VVatkins, op. cit. (footnote 4), pp. 74-75. 



are brought and manufactured at Biddeford, whence the 

 ware is sent to different places by sea. 



John Watkins, in 1792, wrote: -^ 



The potters here, for making coarse brown earthenware, 

 are pretty considerable, and the demand for the articles of 

 their manufacture in various parts of the kingdom, is con- 

 stantly great . . . The profits to the manufacturers of this 

 article are very great, which is evidenced by several persons 

 having risen within a few years, from a state of the greatest 

 obscurity and poverty, to wealth and consequence of no 

 small extent. 



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