Welcome to the Industrial Heritage Network CORNWALL DEVON (IHNCD) page! Our inaugural meeting took place at the King Edward Mine Museum on the 28th March. Take a look at the agenda here Our next meeting will be hosted by the Steamship Freshspring Society on the 18th September watch the space for more details! Our members: ASSOCIATION.

The Haldon Gravels comprise four components, three Eocene and one Pleistocene. The Tower Wood Gravel, of early Eocene age, contains weathered but unabraded flints in a clay matrix of wellordered kaolinite with little illite, and was formed from in situ solution of the Chalk. The overlying Buller's Hill Gravel contains abraded flints and exotic pebbles in a matrix of kaolin clay and sand; it ...

BALL CLAY Component of pottery body recipe. A highly plastic clay essential to the production of some types of pottery. In the UK it is found in Devon and Dorset and its name refers to the traditional way in which huge balls of clay, 35lbs ( 16 kgs ) in weight were carried by pack horse. Ball clays are dug from opencast pits or deep mined.

Mar 31, 2011· Society member publishes book about Dartmoor and China Clay Ball Clay Heritage Society Added: 31 March 2011 A member of the Society, William D. Lethbridge has published a book 'One Man's Dartmoor' which includes chapter on the history of china clay working on Dartmoor.

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realignment of the Ugbrooke Stream and restoration of Denistone and Broadway Ball Clay Sites, Kingsteignton, Devon.' The decision to submit a consolidating planning application follows the method used for a similar application in respect of Chudleigh Knighton Clay Lane ball clay .

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(Materials Type) SP BWS Ball Clay WBB Devon Ball Clay Group 2 (Materials Type) Ball Clay WBB Devon Ball Clay Group 1 (Materials) Kaolin SP WBB Devon Ball Clay Group 2 (Materials) Spinks Blend Ball Ball clay for casting slips. Spinks Blend #1, Spinks Blend Ball Clay

Mar 29, 2011· Page 2 of 10 North Devon line services in 1980s posted in UK Prototype Questions: T'other problem with Tigers, Polybulks, Cargowagons they're so bloomin' LONG.....I suspect that the length of them was the problem, rather than the weight, on the Meeth line, but I can't say for is definitely ball clay and I'd be surprised if CDAs were used to take china clay to the .

Local History Magazine's list of Local Hisory Societies in Devon. Ball Clay Heritage Society which aims to "further understanding of the history and heritage of clay production, transport and use, particularly in Devon and Dorset." ... An Unknown Devon County PollBook. Trans. Devon.

Currently ball clay is exported from Bideford to Castellón, Spain and also Naantali, Finland; also wood has been exported to Wismar, Germany. The Kathleen and May, the last remaining Britishbuilt wooden hull three masted topsail schooner is registered in Bideford and was at one time based there.

From Torrington the line was built in 1925 as the North Devon Cornwall Junction Light Railway linking up with the Southern line to Padstow at Halwill Junction. Funding for the line came from the Government to provide local employment during the depression, the section to Meeth being built on the former three foot tramway used to carry clay.

Ball clay is an extremely rare mineral found in very few places around the world. Its name dates back to the early methods of mining when specialized hand tools were used to extract the clay in rough cube shapes of about 30 cm. As the corners were knocked through handling and storage these cubes became rounded and 'ball' shaped.

The presence of ball clay is a result of the Sticklepath Fault, which occurred around 30 million years ago during the Tertiary period. This runs northwest to southeast across Devon from Bideford Bay to Torbay, and created subsidence which enabled the accumulation of clays and sands which form the ball clay .

The Impact of the 1549 Prayer Book Rebellion in South Devon. May 10, 2018 Smorgasbord Leave a comment. ... Ball Clay, now sometimes referred to as Plastic Clay, is an extremely rare natural resource with only limited sites of extraction across the globe (Sibelco).

Merton, Devon Wikipedia. Merton Moor on the border between the parishes of Merton and Petrockstowe, has been the site of ball clay extraction for many years, and the North Devon and Cornwall Junction Light Railway ran through the west of the parish between 19 to serve the ball clay industry.

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Ball Clay Heritage Society, 2003, Ball Clays of Devon Dorset, The Cornish Hillside Publications ISBN 1 900147 300 BCHS. Bloore, Booth, 1961, Potters' or Ball Clay Mining in South Devon The Mining Engineer No 11 The Institution of Mining Engineers; London pp. 884896 BCHS