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Cunsey Furnace, Cunsey
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Cunsey Furnace
Cunsey Smelt Mill
locality:-   Cunsey
civil parish:-   Satterthwaite (formerly Lancashire)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   ironworks
locality type:-   blast furnace
coordinates:-   SD382936
1Km square:-   SD3893
10Km square:-   SD39

evidence:-   old map:- Crosthwaite 1783-94 (Win/Ble) 
placename:-  Cunza Furnace
source data:-   Map, uncoloured engraving, An Accurate Map of the Grand Lake of Windermere, scale about 2 inches to 1 mile, by Peter Crosthwaite, Keswick, Cumberland, 1783, version published 1819.
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"Cunza Furnace"
block, building/s 
item:-  Armitt Library : 2008.14.102
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evidence:-   old map:- Clarke 1787 map (Windermere S) 
placename:-  Cunza Furnace
source data:-   Map, A Map of the Southern Part of the Lake Winandermere and its Environs, scale about 6.5 ins to 1 mile, by James Clarke, engraved by Samuel John Neele, 352 Strand, published by James Clarke, Penrith, Cumberland and in London etc, 1787.
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"Cunza Furnace"
item:-  private collection : 10.11
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The site was leased to Daniel Cotton and Edward Hill, 1711, who operated a blast furnace from then to 1750. It was then taken over by the Backbarrow Company, but ceased working about this time. It was partly demolished 1760, completely 1800; no traces remain of the blast furnace in the present house.
At first fueled by charcoal; blowing worked by water power.

Marshall, J D &Davies-Shiel, Michael: 1977 (2nd edn): Industrial Archaeology of the Lake Counties: Moon, Michael (Beckermet, Cumbria):: ISBN 0 904131 13 0
Fell, A: 1906: Early Industry in Furness
Lancaster and Wattleworth 1977

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