Ball Clay Heritage Bibliography
Entries in this biibliography are arranged in the following format:
AUTHOR, TITLE
PUBLISHER, DATE, No. of PAGES , AVAILABILITY from
The entries are classified under a series of headings. To go directly to a specific section of the bibliography, click on the heading below.
- Ceramics – South Devon
- China Clay
- Locality – Dorset
- Railways – Torrington & Marland; Dorset Plateways etc.
ARCHAEOLOGY (Kingsteignton Idol, Boat etc.)
Appleton, A., The Kingsteignton Boat
Unpublished undergraduate dissertation, Institute of Archaeology, University College London, 1995
Coles, Bryony, Anthropomorphic Wooden Figures from Britain and Ireland
Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society 56, 1990
pp. 315-333
BCHS
Coles, Bryony, Exhibition Booklet
Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter, 1997
Dowie, H.G., The Kingsteignton Idol,
Journal of the Torquay Natural History Society 3, 1922
pp. 137-140
BCHS
Dudley, Eric, Dating of an Ancient Boat Found at Kingsteignton, Devon
Typescript (draft) Sept. 1994
BCHS
Dudley, Eric, Milne, Gustav & Appleton, Scott, The Boat Found at Kingsteignton, Devon, in 1898
International Journal of Nautical Archaeology (2001)30.2
pp. 266-272
BCHS
Fox, Aileen, South West England 3,500 BC – AD 600
Thames & Hudson, 1964; Reprint: David & Charles; Newton Abbot, 1973
ISBN 0 7153 6209 7
JDP
Goodburn, D, The Kingsteignton Boat: a Priority for Further Research and Publication?
Nautical Archaeology Society Newsletter Aug. 1938
pp. 5-6
Hillam, J., Kingsteignton Boat Chronology
Nautical Archaeology Society Newsletter Aug. 1993
p.6
Milne, Gustav & Appleton, Scott, Kingsteignton Boat: Research from 1995-9, 2000
BCHS
Minchington, Walter, Industrial Archaeology in Devon
Dartington Amenity Research Trust, No. 1, 3rd. Ed., 1976
JDP
Parfitt, Edward, Notes on the Idol Found at Kingsteignton
Transactions of the Devonshire Association Vol. 9, 1877
pp. 170-176
BCHS
Pengelly, W., Memoranda
Transactions of the Devonshire Association Vol. 7, 1875
p. 200
BCHS
Pengelly, W., Discoveries in the More Recent Deposits of the Bovey Basin, Devon
Transactions of the Devonshire Association Vol. 15, 1883
pp. 368-395
BCHS
Piggott, S & Allen, D., Early Celtic Art
Edinburgh University Press for Arts Council of Great Britain, 1970
BCHS
BALL CLAY – GENERAL
Anon., The South Devon China Clay Trade -VII
The Pottery Gazette, July 1908
pp. 816-818
BCHS
Anon., The South Devon China Clay Trade -VIII
The Pottery Gazette, Sept. 1908
pp. 1053-1054
BCHS
Anon., The West of England Clay Trade
The Pottery Gazette, Dec. 1908
pp. 1429-1430
BCHS
Anon., The Clay Worker’s Dialect
The Pottery Gazette, May 1912
pp. 533-534
BCHS
Ashcroft-Hawley V.R.G.& Mitchell, D., Devon Ball Clays & China Clays. 250th Anniversary Edition
Watts, Blake, Bearne & Co Ltd; Newton Abbot, 1960
Ball Clay Heritage Society, The Ball Clays of Devon & Dorset
Cornish Hillside Publications, 2003
ISBN 1 900147 300,
BCHS
The Mining Engineer No 11 The Institution of Mining Engineers; London, 1961
pp. 884-896
BCHS
HMSO; London, 1946
BCHS
Institution of Mining & Metallurgy, 1931
BCHS (x2)
BCHS
Transactions of Proceedings of Torquay Natural History Society Vol. 8 No.1, 1939
pp.3-9
Transactions of the Devonshire Association Vol. 87, 1955
pp. 191-204
JDP; BCHS;
Reprint: David & Charles, 1966
JDP
Typescript, 2001
BCHS
Devon and Courtenay Clay Co. Ltd. 3rd Ed. 1936
41
BCHS
Scott, Greenwood & Co; London, 1901
BCHS (2)
p. 172
Undergraduate Dissertation, 1974
BCHS
Draft Typescript, 1999
62
BCHS
Transactions of the British Ceramic Society Vol. 60 [or 55], 1956
pp.369-440
Legg, Chris, Fayle’s Tramways, Clay mining in Purbeck: Two hundred years, six different gauges
Twelveheads Press; Truro, 2014
ISBN 978 0 906294 79 6
BCHS (JDP)
Legg, Chris, The Furzebrook Railway of Pike Brothers’ Dorset Clay Works
Twelveheads Press; Truro 2016
ISBN 978 0 906294 89 5
BCHS (JDP)
Charles Griffin & Co Ltd; London, 1914
BCHS
Twelveheads Press; Truro, Second edition 2007
ISBN 978 0 906294 65 9
104
Bodleian Library, Oxford, 1747-1762
BCHS
Proceedings of the Norsk Keramisk Selskap, Spring Meting, Trondheim, Norway, April 25-26 1963Mitchell, D., Ball Clays
Journal of the British Ceramic Society Vol. 1 No.2, 1964
pp. 303-308
Silikat Journal 12, 1973
pp. 185-194
Watts, Blake, Bearne & Co Ltd; Newton Abbot, 1982
25
BCHS
North Devon Clay Co. Ltd [1954-1960]
BCHS
Harley Publishing Co. Ltd; London, 1960
BCHS
Exeter University, Economic & Social History (unpublished thesis), 1991
BCHS
David & Charles; Newton Abbot, 1974
ISBN 0 7153 6504 5
BCHS
Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons Ltd; London, 1915,
BCHS
Unpublished typescript, 1996
BCHS (JDP)
Quarry Managers’ Journal, 1964
8
BCHS
BCHS
Obelisk Publications; Exeter, 1992
ISBN 0 946651 51 5
Devon County Council; Exeter, 1985
31
BCHS; JDP
David & Charles; Dawlish, 1964;
Newton Abbot, 2nd Impr. Revised, 1966,
72
JDP
Peninsular Press; Newton Abbot, 1994
ISBN 1 872640 28 1
63
BCHS
Stover Magazine, 1953,
Journal of the Devonshire Association Vol. LXXVIII
pp. 153-160
p. 171
North Devon Museum Trust No.1, 1975,
JDP
David & Charles, 1955 [1967]
Unpublished typescript, 1993
BCHS
Industrial Archaeology Journal
pp. 75-83 & 22-24
BCHS
Transactions of Newcomen. Society XXXV, 1962
pp. 237-241
Exeter Museums Archaeological Field Unit Report No. 91.16 March 1991
46
BCHS; JDP
The Archaeology of the Clay Tobacco Pipe III. Britain: the North and West BAR British Series 78 1980
pp. 305-323
Transactions of the English Ceramic Circle Vol. 7 Part 3, 1970
pp. 222-245
JDP
American Ceramic Society, Inc; Columbus, Ohio
pp. 293-304
BCHS
The Self Publishing Association Ltd; Upton-on-Severn, 1990
ISBN 1 85421 055 6
JDP
Cheddleton Flint Mill Industrial Heritage Trust; Leek, 1972
JDP
J.S. Virtue & Co.; London, 1878; 2nd Ed., 1883
JDP
ISBN 0 95082 4704
University of Exeter, 1983
ISBN 0 85989 129 1
JDP
Pottery Quarterly, 1958
Sayce Publishing; Bovey Tracey, 1996
ISBN 0 9527392 0 8
BCHS (JDP)
The Northern Ceramics Society Newsletter, Sept. 2001
BCHS
Newton Abbot Town Council, 1998
ISBN 0 9533537 0 2
32
JDP
Virginia & Bill Brisco; Inglefield, 1998
ISBN 0 9520045 1 8
52
JDP
Virginia & Bill Brisco; St Albans, 1999
ISBN 1468-3091
JDP
Torquay Pottery Collectors’ Society, 2000
ISBN 0 9515089 6 2
JDP
Arthur H. Stockwell Ltd; Ilfracombe, 1978
ISBN 0 7223 11036 6
JDP
Proceedings of Devon Archaeological Society No. 44, 1986
pp. 143-161
BCHS
1829; Reprint: David & Charles,
BCHS; JDP
Manchester University Press, 1971
D. Bradford Barton; Truro, 1966
BCHS (JDP)
David & Charles; Newton Abbot, 1969
ISBN 0 7153 465555
189
BCHS (JDP)
Tor Mark Press; Redruth, 1990; 2nd Ed., 1996
ISBN 0 85025 358 6
BCHS (JDP)
Cornish Hillside Publications; St Austell, 2001
ISBN 1 900147 23 8
BCHS (JDP)
Francis Antony Ltd; St Austell, 1978
JDP
ENVIRONMENTAL
Cooper, Andrew, Return to Nature: Chapter “Pools of Clay”
BBC Books, 1989
BCHS (JDP)
Heath, Jason, Bird Life in the South Devon Clay-Pits
Devon Birds Vol.38 No.2 April 1985
pp.31-36
BCHS
Heath, Jason & Masson, J, The Wildlife of the Bovey Basin
Nature in Devon 4, 1984
pp.33-47
Roberts, Peter, Microfungi of a Disused Clay Pit (New Cross Pond, Kingsteignton)
Transactions of the Devonshire Association, 1996
pp. 268-278
BCHS
Saunders, Jeremy P., Effect on the Environment of Ball Clay Mining in the Bovey Basin
Polytechnic South West, Plymouth, Faculty of Technology, 1992?
BCHS
FOREIGN
Baaden, Franz, 150 Jahre Fuchs 1838-1988
Peter Fuchs & Fuchs’sche Tongruben, 1988
BCHS (JDP)
Mayen, Klaus-Dieter, Tongraeber im Westerwald
Veronika Mayen; Siershahn, 1985
ISBN 3 9804790 1 3
BCHS (JDP)
Mayen, Klaus-Dieter, Menschen unter Tage im Westerwaelder Tonbergbau
Veronika Mayen; Siershahn, 1998
ISBN 3 00 003393 9
BCHS (JDP)
GEOLOGY
Beche, H.T.de la, Report on the Geology of Cornwall, Devon and West Somerset, 1839
p. 511
Bristow, Colin M., The Derivation of the Tertiary Sediments of the Petrockstowe Basin, North Devon
Proceedings of the Ussher Society 2, 1968
pp. 29-35
BCHS
Bristow, Colin M., Guide for SW England Field Trip: Ball Clay in Dorset and South Devon, 11th Extractive Industry Geology Conference
Unpublished, 2000
BCHS
Bristow, Colin M. & Hughes, D.E., A Tertiary Thrust Fault on the Southern Margin of the Bovey Basin
Geological Magazine 108, 1971
pp. 61-67
Bristow, Colin M. & Robson, J., Palaeogene Basin Development in Devon
Transactions of the Institute of Mining & Metallurgy, Section B: Applied Earth Science 103, 1994
pp. B163-174
Chandler, M.E.J., The Oligocene Flora of the Bovey Tracey Lake Basin, Devonshire
Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) 3, 1957
pp. 71-123
Dewey, H., British Regional Geology, West Region, ?
Dineley, D.L., Contortions in the Bovey Beds (Oligocene), South West England
Biuletyn Peryglacjalny 12, 1963
pp. 151-160
Durrance E.M. & Laming, D.J.C. (ed.), The Geology of Devon
University of Exeter, 1982
ISBN 0 85989 247 6
Edwards, R.A., The Geology of the Bovey Basin
Unpublished PhD Thesis, University of Exeter, 1970
Edwards, R.A., Tertiary Sediments and Structure of the Bovey Basin, South Devon
Proceedings of the Geologists Association 97, 1976
pp. 1-26
BCHS
Fasham, M.J.R. , A Gravity Survey of the Bovey Tracey Basin, Devon
Geological Magazine 108, 1971
pp. 119-130
Fletcher, B.N., A New Tertiary Basin East of Lundy Island
Q.J. Geological Society, London 131, 1975
pp. 223-5
Freshney, E.C., Cyclical Sedimentation in the Petrockstowe Basin
Proceedings of the Ussher Society 2, 1970
pp. 179-189
BCHS
Freshney, E.C., Beer, K.E. & Wright, J.E., Geology of the Country around Chulmleigh
Memoirs of the Geological Survey G.B. Sheet 309, 1979
Gouldstone, T.M., Some Aspects of the Quaternary History of the Bovey Basin, Devonshire
Unpublished MSc Thesis, University of Exeter, 1975
Groves, A.W., The Unroofing of the Dartmoor Granite and the Distribution of its Detritus in the Sediments of Southern England
Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society 87, 1931
pp. 62-96
Highley, D.E., Ball Clay
Institute of Geological Sciences Mineral Dossier 11; London, 1975
Jenkins, Clive A. & Vincent, A., Periglacial Features in the Bovey Basin, South Devon
Proceedings of the Ussher Society 5, 1981
pp. 200-205
BCHS
Jukes-Brown, The Depth & Succession of the Bovey Deposit
Torquay Natural History Society 1, 1909
pp. 1-23
Key, J.H., On the Bovey Deposit,
Q. J. of the Geological Society, London 18, 1861
9
BCHS
Mitchell, D., Ball Clays & their Properties
Proceedings of the Norsk Keramisk Selskap, Spring Meting, Trondheim, Norway, April 25-26 1963
Mitchell, D., Ball Clays
Journal of the British Ceramic Society Vol. 1 No.2, 1964
pp. 303-308
Mitchell, D. & Stentiford, M.J., Die Gewinnung & die Eigenschaften von Plastichem Ton aus dem Devon
Silikat Journal 12, 1973
pp. 185-194
Mitchell, D. & Stentiford, M.J., The Production and Properties of Devon Ball Clays
Watts, Blake, Bearne & Co Ltd; Newton Abbot, 1982
25
BCHS
Newell, A.J., Depositional environment of Eocene ball clays in the Hampshire Basin (Southern England)
Technical Report WA/99/23, British Geological Survey, 1999,
Palmer, Quentin & Witte, Gordon, Guide for the South West England Field Trip 11-12, May 2000
BCHS
Pengelly, W., The Lignite Clays of Bovey Tracey
Proceedings of the Devonshire Association Vol. I, 1862,
p.29
Pengelly, W., The Lignite Clays of Bovey Tracey
Proceedings of the Devonshire Association Vol. XV [Vol. 87?], [1925?]
Pengelly, W. & Heer, O., On the Fossil Flora of Bovey Tracey
Phil. Trans. 112, 1861
pp. 1019-39
Powell, W.J. & Vincent, A, A Contrast in Drilling Techniques used in Exploration for Commercial Clays in Southwest England
Drillex ’87 Conf., Institute of Mining & Metallurgy & British Drilling Association, 1987
pp.131-140
Reid, C., Geology of Dartmoor and Newton Abbot, ?
Reid, C. & E.M., The Lignite Deposits of Bovey Tracey
Phil. Trans. B. 201, 1910
pp.161-178
Scott, A., Ball Clays, Memoirs of the Geological Survey,
pp. 1-78
Eric Johnson Selwood et al, Geology of the country around Newton Abbot
Memoir of the British Geological Survey, Sheet 339, 1984
Ussher, W.A.E., The Geology of the Country around Newton Abbot
H.M.S.O, Memoirs of the Geological Survey of Great Britain; London, 1913
BCHS
Q.J. Eng. Geol. 4(3), 1971
pp. 241-247
BCHS
Unpublished M Phil Thesis, University of Surrey, 1974
Geological Society, Sp. Pub. 11, Residual Deposits, 1983
pp. 39-45
BCHS
LOCALITY – Devon
Berry, Les & Gosling, Gerald, Around Newton Abbot
Alan Sutton Ltd; Bath, 1994
ISBN 0 7524 0027 4
JDP
Brayley, E. Jnr., Supplement to A History of Devonshire by Rev. T. Moore, 1825
Carter, Philip, Newton Abbot
The Mint Press; Exeter, 2004
ISBN 1-903356-40-7
JDP
Delderfield, The Torbay Story, ?
Dunsford, Miscellaneous Observations in the Course of Tours through Several Parts of the West of England, 1800
pp. 101-109
Harris, Richard, King’s Teignton: A Parish History
King’s Teignton Parochial Church Council, 1977
BCHS; JDP
Harris, Richard, Kingsteignton in Old Picture Postcards
European Library in Zaltbommel, Netherlands, 1984
ISBN 90 288 2925 3/CIP
BCHS
Harris, Richard, Kingsteignton Collection
Obelisk Publications; Exeter, 1994
ISBN 0 946651 87 6
JDP
Harris, Richard, Kingsteignton of Yesteryear
Obelisk Publications; Exeter, 1996
ISBN 1 899073 30 2
JDP
Hill, J.W., Historical and Business Directory of Torquay and the Towns and Parishes within Fifteen Miles
J.W. Hill & Co.; London and Torquay, 1869-70
JDP
Hoskings, W.G., A New Survey of England, Devon, 1954
Jones, Roger, A Book of Newton Abbot
Roger Jones, 1979
ISBN 0 9506563 0 5
JDP
Jukes-Brown, Geography of the Country around Newton Abbot, 1913
Kelly, E.R., Post Office Directory of Devonshire and Cornwall
Kelly & Co.; London, 1873
JDP
Lewin, Ron A., [Templer Family]
Typescript, 2000?
BCHS
Lysons, Magna Britannica Vol. 6, 1822
p. CCXCI
Minchington, Walter, Devon at Work
David & Charles
ISBN 0 7153 63891
Polwhele, R., History of Devonshire (Chapple’s Edition) Vol. 1, 1793
Rhodes, A.J., Newton Abbot: its History and Development, etc., 1904
Risdon, Tristram, Survey of the County of Devon, 1630
Reprinted with Additions & Remarks for Rees & Curtis; Plymouth, 1811. Reprinted by Porcupines; Barnstaple, 1970
JDP
Stirling, Rev. D.M., History of Newton-Abbot and Newton-Bushel, 1830
Strong, H.W., Industries of North Devon
Reprint: David & Charles, 1889; Reprint + Update, 1970
ISBN 0 7153 51346
White, William, History, Gazetteer and Directory of Devonshire,
Sheffield, 1878White, William, History, Gazetteer and Directory of Devonshire
Sheffield, 1890
White, William, History, Gazetteer and Directory of Devonshire
Sheffield, 1850 Reprint: August M. Kelley; New York, 1968
JDP
Worthy, Charles, Devon Wills, 1896
p.309
LOCALITY – Dorset
Hutchings, History of Dorset, ?
PORTS – Teignmouth etc.
Boyle, Vernon C. & Payne, Donald, Devon Harbours
Christopher Johnson, 1952
Clark, E.A.G., The Estuarine Ports of the Exe and the Teign
University of London, 1954
Clark, E.A.G., The Ports of the Exe Estuary 1660-1860
Exeter University, 1960
Goucher, J.D., History and Development of Teignmouth Docks 1997https://juliedgoucher.files.wordpress.com/2017/12/history_and_development_of_teignmouth_docks.pdf
Slade, W.J., Out of Appledore
Reprint: Conway Press, 1959; Reprint 1980
ISBN 0 85177 0266
Trump, Harold J., Port of Teignmouth and Teignmouth Harbour Commission 1836-1932
Maritime History IV, 1974
pp. 49-64
Trump, Harold J., Westcountry Harbour: the Port of Teignmouth 1690-1975
Brunswick Press; Teignmouth, 1976
ISBN 0 904268 01 2
204
BCHS; JDP
Trump, Harold J., Teignmouth: A Maritime History
Phillimore; Chichester, 1986
140
RAILWAYS – Torrington & Marland; Dorset Plateways etc.
McDermot, E.T. (revised by Clinker, C.R.), History of the Great Western Railway Vol. 2 (1863-1921)
GWR; London, 1931; 1973,
Ian Allan
Fairclough, Tony & Shepherd, Eric, Mineral Railways of the West Country
D, Bradford Barton Ltd; Truro, 1975
ISBN 0 85153 176 8
JDP
Garner, Rod, The Torrington & Marland Light Railway
Kestrel Railway Books; Southampton, 2006
ISBN 0954485971
BCHS
Gregory, R., The South Devon Railway
Oakwood Press; Trowbridge, 1982
128
Jenkins, S.C. & Pomroy, L.J., The Moretonhampstead and South Devon Railway
Oakwood Press; Oxford, 1989
120
Kidner, R.W., The Railways of Purbeck
Oakwood Press; Usk, 2000
ISBN 0 85361 557 8
BCHS (JDP)
Legg, Chris, Fayle’s Tramways, Clay mining in Purbeck: Two hundred years, six different gauges
Twelveheads Press; Truro, 2014
ISBN 978 0 906294 79 6
BCHS (JDP)
Legg, Chris, The Furzebrook Railway of Pike Brothers’ Dorset Clay Works
Twelveheads Press; Truro 2016
ISBN 978 0 906294 89 5
BCHS (JDP)
Twelveheads Press; Truro, Second edition 2007
ISBN 978 0 906294 65 9
104
Middleton Press; Midhurst, 1998
ISBN 1 901706 27 3
JDP
Oxford Publishing, 1984
ISBN 0 86093 145 5
BCHS (JDP)Pomroy, L.W., Teign Valley Line
Oxford Publishing Co.; Poole, 1984
36Thomas, David St John, The Regional History of the Railways of Great Britain, Vol. I The West Country
David & Charles, Revised Ed., 1963Worth, R. Hansford, Early Western Railroads
Transactions Plymouth Institution & Devon & Cornwall Natural History Society, 1887-1890
p.82