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Colebrook Dale
Also Coalbrook Dale, Coalbrookdale, Colebrookdale.
[Name of a valley in Shropshire.]
The name of a porcelain factory in Shropshire, used to designate a kind of porcelain formerly made there. Also attrib.
1855H. T. De la Beche & Reeks Catal. Spec. Brit. Pott. 173 Shropshire and Colebrook Dale Porcelain. 1857Marryat Pott. & Porc. (ed. 2) xii. §298 This ware, commonly termed Coalbrook Dale..was generally more for use than ornament. 1878L. Jewitt Ceramic Art I. ix. 301 Coalbrookdale Terra Cotta. 1962Times 23 Feb. 11/7 These flower-encrusted cottages are usually known to collectors as Colebrookdale. |