Imperial Clay Tobacco Pipe Factory

A 19th century clay pipe waster from a clay tobacco pipe factory in Warwick | Warwickshire County Council
A 19th century clay pipe waster from a clay tobacco pipe factory in Warwick
Warwickshire County Council
Description of this historic site

The site of a clay tobacco pipe factory which was in use during the Imperial period. The factory had kilns. It stood on Market Street, Warwick.

Notes about this historic site

1 1967: Also found were large numbers of wasters in the clay pipe factory that occupied the site in the 19th century.
2 There were kilns on Market St (east side; towards the north end). They were excavated by Farr and Taylor in the late 1960’s. The same site also housed a 19th century clay pipe kiln (marked on the 1851 Board of Health Map).

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