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Beerpot Ironworks, Workington
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Beerpot Ironworks
Bearpot Ironworks
Barepot Ironworks
Seaton Ironworks
locality:-   Barepot
locality:-   Workington
civil parish:-   Workington (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   ironworks
locality type:-   blast furnace
coordinates:-   NY01262940 (about) 
1Km square:-   NY0129
10Km square:-   NY02
references:-   OS County Series

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 53 7) 
placename:-  Beerpot Ironworks
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.
"Beerpot Ironworks"

evidence:-   old map:- Donald 1774 (Cmd) 
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, 3x2 sheets, The County of Cumberland, scale about 1 inch to 1 mile, by Thomas Donald, engraved and published by Joseph Hodskinson, 29 Arundel Street, Strand, London, 1774.
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D4NY02NW.jpg
"Iron Forge"
blocks, building/s; and circle with rays, mill wheel; a water mill 
item:-  Carlisle Library : Map 2
Image © Carlisle Library

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Bearpot Ironworks, furnace and foundry, established about 1762.

Marshall, J D &Davies-Shiel, Michael: 1977 (2nd edn): Industrial Archaeology of the Lake Counties: Moon, Michael (Beckermet, Cumbria):: ISBN 0 904131 13 0

notes:-  
Founded 1762, built 1763. James Spedding was a key figure in the development, the company was called Spedding, Hicks and Co. The ore was kidney iron ore, haematite. At first, the blast furnace was fueled by charcoal, brought from Scotland; the blowing was water powered.
Closed 1899.

Lancaster and Wattleworth 1977

notes:-  
Hutchinson's History of Cumberland:-
"Between Workington and Seaton, on the banks of the Derwent are considerable ironworks, called Seaton Ironworks, planned and built under the direction of that eminent engineer Thomas (sic) Spedding Esq., of Whitehaven in 1763. They have two blast furnaces for the smelting of iron ore, a mill for slitting and rolling of bar iron, a double forge for refining and drawing of bar iron, a foundry with several small furnaces, wherein they make cannon and cast iron work of all sorts; a boring mill for boring cannon cylinders, etc., a grinding house and turning house and many other conveniences suitable for carrying on very extensive iron manufacturing. The whole gives bread to several hundred of the industrious and laborious part of mankind. These works are carried on under thye firm of Spedding, Hicks &Co"

Hutchinson:: History of Cumberland

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