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West Cumberland Haematite Ironworks, Workington
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West Cumberland Haematite Ironworks
site name:-   Whitehaven Junction Railway
locality:-   Workington
civil parish:-   Workington (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   ironworks
locality type:-   railway sidings
coordinates:-   NX99792980 (about) 
1Km square:-   NX9929
10Km square:-   NX92
references:-   OS County Series

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 53 7) 
placename:-  West Cumberland Haematite 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.
"West Cumberland Haematite Ironworks"
with sidings from railway 

notes:-  
Incorporated 1860, the first furnace was operated from 1862. The works produced pig iron and wrought iron, and expanded into steel making by 1872. There were six blast furnaces and four Bessemer converters. Closed 1893.

Lancaster and Wattleworth 1977

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