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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… collieries, brick and tile works, &c.; and several blast-furnaces have been established for smelting iron-ore, by … canal, also, from the Apedale collieries and iron-furnaces to Newcastle, crosses the west part of the parish. … great variety. The Chillington works consist of four blast-furnaces, forge, mill, &c., producing 400 tons of finished …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… mines near Wombridge church with the Donnington Wood furnaces and the Donnington Wood Canal. About 1790 the … the area. 87 From 1856 Hollinswood, adjacent to Priorslee furnaces, became an important marshalling yard, linked to the …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… a Boulton & Watt engine to blow his two new blast furnaces at Snedshill, the first in the county on a site … holding in the partnership. In 1796 the two Snedshill furnaces reputedly made 3,400 tons of iron, and in the … mines at Wombridge with an obligation to build two blast furnaces within 18 months. The original two furnaces produced …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… the fires throughout the smithery; there are several blast-furnaces for converting scrap iron into pigs, and a machine … above which is a neat cupola. It contains three large furnaces for casting brass ordnance only, the largest of …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… early period till after the reign of Charles I., when the furnaces were taken down, and a forge erected on their site, …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… for workers at the Lilleshall Co.'s Priorslee blast furnaces and, from 1861, at the New Yard. Many of the … of industrial buildings to tenements. Wrockwardine Wood furnaces closed in the 1820s and were later made into 16 … level, perhaps navigable, ran between Donnington Wood furnaces and the area north-west of the Nabb by c. 1800. 37 …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… sent the ore to be smelted in their Donnington Wood furnaces, blown in in 1785. 93 During the 1780s ironstone … mines and the Donnington Wood ironworks, 2 built two blast furnaces on the west side of what was later known as Moss … 1802 he took them into the newly formed Lilleshall Co. The furnaces were closed down in 1826, about the time that the …