Old Cumbria Gazetteer |
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| ironworks, Whitehaven | ||
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| Lonsdale Ironworks | ||
| Whitehaven Ironworks | ||
| locality:- | Bransty | |
| civil parish:- | Whitehaven (formerly Cumberland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | ironworks | |
| locality type:- | blast furnace | |
| coordinates:- | NX97411894 (etc) | |
| 1Km square:- | NX9718 | |
| 10Km square:- | NX91 | |
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| notes:- |
Erected by the Lonsdale Hematite Iron Co, 1870. There were eventually four blast furnaces;
fueled by coke; blowing by steam power. Although one of the companies that ran the
plant was Lonsdale Haematite Iron and Steel Co, the works never made anything except
pig iron. Closed 1903. |
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| Lancaster and Wattleworth 1977 |
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