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Backbarrow Ironworks
locality:-   Backbarrow
civil parish:-   Haverthwaite (formerly Lancashire)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   ironworks
locality type:-   blast furnace
coordinates:-   SD355846
1Km square:-   SD3584
10Km square:-   SD38

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Lan 12 2) 
placename:-  Backbarrow Ironworks
source data:-   Maps, County Series maps of Great Britain, scales 6 and 25 inches to 1 mile, published by the Ordnance Survey, Southampton, Hampshire, from about 1863 to 1948.

evidence:-   descriptive text:- West 1778 (11th edn 1821) 
source data:-   Guide book, A Guide to the Lakes, by Thomas West, published by William Pennington, Kendal, Cumbria once Westmorland, and in London, 1778 to 1821.
image WS21P026, button  goto source
Page 26, footnote:-  "... From thence [Newby Bridge] to Bouth, on the common turnpike 3 miles. (But it might be worth while to go a little out of the way through a valley on the left hand, by Backbarrow Cotton-spinning-mills, the iron founderies, and Low-wood Gunpowder-mills, which are very romantically situated)."

evidence:-   old map:- West 1784 map
placename:-  Backbarrow Furnace
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, A Map of the Lakes in Cumberland, Westmorland and Lancashire, scale about 3.5 miles to 1 inch, engraved by Paas, 53 Holborn, London, about 1784.
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"Backbarrow / Furnace"
item:-  Armitt Library : A1221.1
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evidence:-   old print:- Fell 1908
placename:-  Backbarrow Ironworks
source data:-   Print, Backbarrow Furnace in 1850, Haverthwaite, Lancashire, by William Fell, 1908, published by Hume Kitchin, 7 Market Street, Ulverston, Lancashire, 1908.
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Tipped in opposite p.209 of The Early Iron Industry of Furness and District, by Alfred Fell. 
printed, bottom  "BACKBARROW FURNACE IN 1850."
printed, lower right  "W. Fell 1908:"
item:-  Armitt Library : A701.4
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:-  
Bloomery forge from 1685; blast furnace from 1761; ceased 1967.

Marshall, J D &Davies-Shiel, Michael: 1977 (2nd edn): Industrial Archaeology of the Lake Counties: Moon, Michael (Beckermet, Cumbria):: ISBN 0 904131 13 0

notes:-  
Blast furnace built 1711; fueled by charcoal, blowing apparatus worked by water power

Lancaster and Wattleworth 1977

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