Welcome to the Cat Pottery

Within the Yorkshire Dales National Park, in the village of West Burton in Wensleydale the Nichols family has been making Moorside Cats since 1982.  The cats are modelled in clay and given life and their own  names in this tranquil, picturesque place with its magnificent village Green and its hidden waterfall Cauldron Falls below which salmon spawned in 2013-2015. but alas none in 2016 as water conditions were unfavourable. We trust conditions will be favourable  this year 2017.     They were and salmon were leaping  in October for about  a week..

 It's now 2018 November 13 and the beck is not deep enough to take the salmon as we've had little rain  throughout the year. .However trout have been spotted in the big pool below the falls.

Here, since 1982 two generations-people and cats have been involved in the business: Shirley and Barrie Nichols and daughter Sarah alongside the family cats Chloe, Orlando, Zoe, Millie and Tilda, and newcomers Ruby, Alfie and Sophie who have all been models for the ceramic, metallic and granite stone garden cats.

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