Fig. 846.
Gestingthorpe.
Pavement tiles and other articles were made at Gestingthorpe, in Essex, in the seventeenth century. Houghton, writing in 1693, says:—
“From my ingenious good friend, Mr. Samuel Dale, of Braintree, in Essex, I am informed, that at Gestingthorpe, in that county, are made a sort of hard yellowish bricks and pavements, called white brick, and Walpet brick, from a town in Suffolk of that name, where they were first made; they are harder and more durable than common red brick, and therefore much used for pavement of floors in lower rooms, and also for fire-hearths, except just where they make their fires.”
Holkham.
In 1849, the Earl of Leicester, anxious to turn the clays of his estate in Norfolk to good account, commenced the manufacture of red terra-cotta at Holkham, and produced some good Tudor chimney-tops and moulded bricks.
Nuneham Courtney.
Potworks existed here in the beginning of the seventeenth century, and are spoken of by Plot, in 1677 as being “now deserted; nor, indeed, was there, as I ever heard of, anything extraordinary performed during the working these earths.”
Marsh Balden.
The pottery at this place, existing in the beginning of the seventeenth century, is included in the above remark by Dr. Plot.