The Teapottery

British, established 1978

BiographyMartin and Judy Bibby established the Teapottery Ltd in 1978 and originally based their pottery at Swineside in Coverdale, North Yorkshire. They aptly named their business Swineside Ceramics and made all kinds of pottery from vases to cheese dishes.

In 1983, due to the hard Yorkshire winters and their continued success they decided to expand and therefore moved their business down to the market town of Leyburn in Wensleydale, North Yorkshire where they set up a larger pottery on the business park. They quickly develop a reputation for innovative designs and in their early range they included a set of three teapots shaped as a head sporting a distinctive hairdo (Punk, Teddy Girl and Teddy Boy).

By 1986 the teapots generated so much interest in the UK and abroad that they decided to concentrate exclusively on them and thus changed the name of their business from Swineside Ceramics to Swineside Teapottery.

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