The HonitonPottery Workshop

Beth Simmons first came to the Honiton Pottery Workshop on the High Street for an evening class and ended up buying the business in 2020. The premises sit close to the site where Honiton Pottery itself began producing earthenware in 1881, a firm whose designs once reached Harrods and Selfridges before production ended in 1991; two pieces from that history are held in the V&A's design collection. Simmons's workshop is a separate, smaller enterprise: six-week wheel-throwing courses, one-to-one tuition, and shorter sessions in tile-making and hand-building for ages four upward. Term-time opening is Tuesdays, Fridays and Saturdays, extending across the week in school holidays. It sells finished ceramics alongside the classes, but the emphasis stays on people making things themselves rather than buying what is already made.