>>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.
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>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
My last bag of ball clay was marked "WBB Devon Clays Ltd, Newton Abbot. UK
Origin". So the company still exists in the Bovey area, but whether they
still dig clay there is not proved - but likely?
Richard Kelham
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