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THE TREVITHICK SOCIETY
FOR THE PRESERVATION AND STUDY OF CORNWALL'S INDUSTRIAL HERITAGE
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Industrial gazetteer: clay and brickworks |
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Leswidden China Clay Works
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Like the nearby Balleswidden clay works, Leswidden appeared after the first large-scale survey of the area (about 1898) and closed before the second. The works reopened in the early 1900s and took on some of the men who were discharged from Botallack Mine in 1914. Until 1926 the works was owned by McClaren China Clays. The two pits appear to have worked together by H. D. Pochin and Co. and then by English China Clays. The houses on the north side of the road, McClaren Villas, are named for the then chairman of ECC.
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