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| Sinder Hill Cottage, Finsthwaite | ||
| Sinder Hill Cottage | ||
| Cinder Hill Cottages | ||
| locality:- | Town End | |
| locality:- | Finsthwaite | |
| civil parish:- | Colton (formerly Lancashire) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | buildings | |
| coordinates:- | SD36098712 (?) | |
| 1Km square:- | SD3687 | |
| 10Km square:- | SD38 | |
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| evidence:- | old map:- OS County Series (Lan 8 14) placename:- Cinder Hill |
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| 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. |
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| notes:- |
This area was producing metal using a sintering process and was a bloomery site until
Elizabethan times, where iron was made using charcoal. It is believed that iron ore
was brought to the site, as this was easier than transporting the vast amounts of
wood required for the smelting process. |
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| The spelling of the word cinder is derived from a Germanic word related to the German
word sinter which is a "deposit formed by evaporation", which describes the process
of sintering. |
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