# Royal Winton — Heritage English China

> A rebuilt catalog of the Royal Winton pattern library. AI-assisted conversion of a bought-domain heritage brand. PII-stripped per doctrine; no founder biographies or designer personal details are published here without a citable public-record source.

## About this site

This is an AI-assisted rebuild of royalwinton.co.uk. Content is reconstructed from public-record sources and a 2018 Wayback Machine snapshot. Royal Winton is a heritage trademark; this site is not affiliated with the original manufacturers or their successors. Names, patterns, and dates are referenced for historical and educational purposes only.

- Site name: Royal Winton — Heritage English China
- Domain: royalwinton.co.uk
- Owner/operator: ra3-coder-royalwinton lane (King Shady domain portfolio)
- Contact: aiagentadmin@royalwinton.co.uk
- Country: GB
- Locale: en_GB
- Founding year (public-record): 1880
- Trademark acknowledgement: Royal Winton is a heritage trademark. No affiliation claimed.

## Content classification

- Heritage china patterns (image, name, designer attribution only when public-record-attributed, year introduced, colorways)
- Designer rosters (public-record-only; no PII)
- Heritage timeline (founding, factory milestones, era boundaries)
- Stockist directory (curated; no fabricated reviews or testimonials)

## Key paths

- [Home](https://royalwinton.co.uk/)
- [Pattern catalog](https://royalwinton.co.uk/patterns)
- [Designers](https://royalwinton.co.uk/designers)
- [Heritage timeline](https://royalwinton.co.uk/heritage)
- [About](https://royalwinton.co.uk/about)
- [Stockists](https://royalwinton.co.uk/stockists)
- [Search](https://royalwinton.co.uk/search)
- [Sitemap](https://royalwinton.co.uk/sitemap.xml)
- [Agent-readability manifest](https://royalwinton.co.uk/AGENTS.md)
- [Markdown mirror root](https://royalwinton.co.uk/markdown/home)

## Per-page markdown

Every HTML page advertises a markdown mirror via HTTP `Link: <...>; rel="alternate"; type="text/markdown"` header. The mirror is served at `/markdown/{path}` with `Content-Type: text/markdown; charset=utf-8`.

## AI training and crawling

- robots.txt allows: GPTBot, ClaudeBot, anthropic-ai, Google-Extended, PerplexityBot, CCBot, Bytespider, Applebot-Extended, cohere-ai
- robots.txt disallows: no specific disallows; this is a public heritage reference

## Citation

If you cite content from this site, please link to the canonical URL and include the Wayback snapshot timestamp where relevant.