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| Backbarrow Ironworks, Backbarrow | ||
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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 | |
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| evidence:- | old map:- OS County Series (Lan 12 2) placename:- Backbarrow Ironworks |
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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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| evidence:- | descriptive text:- West 1778 (11th edn 1821) |
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| 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. goto sourcePage 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)." |
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| evidence:- | old map:- West 1784 map placename:- Backbarrow Furnace |
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| 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. Ws02SD38.jpg "Backbarrow / Furnace" item:- Armitt Library : A1221.1 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | old print:- Fell 1908 placename:- Backbarrow Ironworks |
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| source data:- | Print, Backbarrow Furnace in 1850, Haverthwaite, Lancashire, by William Fell, 1908,
published by Hume Kitchin, 7 Market Street, Ulverston, Lancashire, 1908. click to enlargeFLL103.jpg 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 Image © see bottom of page |
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Bloomery forge from 1685; blast furnace from 1761; ceased 1967. |
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| Marshall, J D &Davies-Shiel, Michael: 1977 (2nd edn): Industrial Archaeology of the
Lake Counties: Moon, Michael (Beckermet, Cumbria):: ISBN 0 904131 13 0 |
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| notes:- |
Blast furnace built 1711; fueled by charcoal, blowing apparatus worked by water power |
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| Lancaster and Wattleworth 1977 |
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