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Wenford Dries

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Wenford Dries

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Location: St. Tudy, South West England, England, United Kingdom

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1. The Camel Trail – The Camel Trail loop from Bodmin

24.1km

02:16

160m

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2. Snail's Pace Cafe – The Camel Trail loop from Helland

11.8km

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3. Snail's Pace Cafe – De Lank River Bridge loop from Blisland

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02:47

490m

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Andy Lewis MTB 🇬🇧

October 20, 2021

It's just a concrete shell

Andy Lewis MTB 🇬🇧

April 26, 2023

The Wenford Dries, built at the turn of the last century, are an impressive reminder of this heritage. They are now derelict, sitting proudly at the start of the Camel Trail in Wenfordbridge.

Clay was blasted from the ground by water cannon and pumped to the settlement tanks, where it was dried by the furnace before being loaded onto the railway trucks to supply the local potteries. There is still a working pottery at Wenfordbridge.

Andy Lewis MTB 🇬🇧

April 26, 2023

The Wenford Dries was built in the early 20th C, to dry china clay slurry, the china clay slurry was moved from the quarry some miles away by pipe line and placed in massive settling tanks at the rear of the building, this slurry was then poured in to drying tanks above long furnaces, these were fired from one end and large flue chimneys drew the hot gasses through the dryers, the dry china clay was removed from the top and moved down to the end of the building to be stored and then sent out via train.

The building was worked right up until 2002 when it finally closed.

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Distance 552 m

Uphill 10 m

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Location: St. Tudy, South West England, England, United Kingdom

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Wenford Dries

1. The Camel Trail – The Camel Trail loop from Bodmin

2. Snail's Pace Cafe – The Camel Trail loop from Helland

3. Snail's Pace Cafe – De Lank River Bridge loop from Blisland

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