 In 1925 Pleydell-Bouverie started her first pottery with a wood-fired kiln in the grounds of her family estate at Coleshill in Berkshire (now Oxfordshire), where she was joined by Norah Braden.They used ash glazes, prepared from wood and vegetables growing on the estate.In 1946 she moved to her second pottery at Kilmington Manor in Wiltshire where she worked until her death in 1985.