Was there a second manufactory at Bordesley as some of the older texts state?
None of the seventeenth or eighteenth century histories of either Worcester – or Warwickshire remark on any such workshop. It was a conclusion reached by the research of 1928, unsupported by evidence. There are three serious objections. Bordesley, near Redditch, is the site of a Cistercian abbey, not a village. The Sheldon family held no property there, nor does any evidence for weavers there survive.
