This factory was originally founded by Robert Errington and William Reay at Bardon Mill in 1878, in the once water powered woollen mill, which operated on the site from the late seventeenth century. Since Victorian times, when it earned its nationwide reputation for high quality sanitary ware, drainage pipes and ornamental pottery for domestic use,
Errington Reay has remained a traditional family run pottery.

Today Errington Reay is the last commercial pottery in Britain licensed to produce salt glaze pottery. They still practice traditional ways of hand throwing, hand moulding and casting. These together with specialised salt glazing and firing techniques, give Errington Reay pottery its truly unique textured finish.

They currently produce a number of animal sculpture including

Frog
Chickens
Cat
Snail