>I can confirm that china clay is still worked and is a major local industry.
>The product is exported via Teignmouth, an extremely busy but small port.
>
The clay worked at Bovey Tracey was ball clay not china clay. I'm not sure
that mines are still active. In 1969, in the South Western Division of the
Mines Inspectorate, there were 19 such mines at work - the majority, if not
all, in Devon. For details of workings in North Devon see M J Messenger's
North Devon Clay, published Twelveheads, 1982. Still in print Michael?
Peter
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