Haughton records a glass house here in 1696 making Flint Green and Ordinary glass. This glass house is said to have been owned by Edward Dixon. A Richard Dixon was said to have gone from Worcester to manage the Glass house at Bolsterstone in South Yorkshire in the late 17th century and to have left there in 1702 to found his own works at Whittington. Edward was in prison for debt in 1727, and a Hugh Dixon glass maker was bankrupt in Dudley in 1713, so Richard may have left if the Worcester Glass house closed, like many others, as a result of the glass tax in1697 and Edward may not have recovered from the financial losses involved. In the Topographical Collections of John Aubry 1659-70, he states (p14)....but now are goeing up no lesse than 3 glasse-houses between Gloucester and about Worcester.. in the context of discussing window glass. It is not clear when he meant by 'now'. A later editor has suggested 1671, but that seems doubtful since the passage was in a preface dated April 1670.