This quarry is now filled with willow scrub with a stream.
The site was known as Roche Glass Mine or Polpuff, and is marked on the 1881 OS Six Inch Map as Roche Felspar Works. Articles were written about it in the Mining Journal. The quarry reopened in 1917, during the First World War, to provide feldspar for electrical porcelain.
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Publications (2)
- Mayers, Lynne (2008). Bal Maidens: Women and Girls of the Cornwall and Devon Mines (2nd ed.). Cinderford: Blaize Bailey Books. pp. 126–129. ISBN 978-0-9556896-1-1. OCLC 663435621.
- Mayers, Lynne (2009). Voices from the Dressing Floors, 1773-1950. Cinderford: Blaize Bailey Books. pp. 92–98. ISBN 978-0-9556896-2-8.
